Look Storen,

Qt WebEgine used 15 years ago for developing a Safari from scratch. Debian/GNU 
Linux is more GTK side than Qt.


Kind regards,

Mezgani Ali
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> On 15/03/2023, at 19:52, Soren Stoutner <so...@stoutner.com> wrote:
> 
> Paul,
> 
> The point is that these security updates are added upstream, they are 
> regularly packaged in Debian, and it wouldn’t be any harder to support them 
> in Debian stable than security updates for any other browser.  Your original 
> email indicated that none of these three things were true.
> 
> Beyond that, you might find the following an interesting read (fairly long, 
> but the point is that, as per the Chromium maintainer, Qt WebEngine has 
> better coverage in Debian stable than Chromium does):
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1020387#255 
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1020387#255>
> Privacy Browser is not going to ship in Bookworm, but it will ship in 
> Bookworm+1.  Part of the reason why I have become one of the Qt maintainers 
> is so that it receives proper security support in stable (and oldstable as 
> much as possible, although there probably isn’t any web browser that 
> currently has good security coverage in oldstable).
> 
> Soren
> 
> On Wednesday, March 15, 2023 11:34:58 AM MST Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 06:41:55PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > > Paul,
> > >
> > > I /am/ one of the Debian Qt WebEngine maintainers, and I also submit code
> > > to the upstream Qt project.
> > >
> > > The Salsa link you included appears to be a bit misinformed about security
> > > support for Qt WebEngine in Debian.  For more accurate information, I
> > > would
> > > point you to this link:
> > >
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032794
> >
> > Please note that this request is for a not-yet-released Debian version.
> >
> > I am not sure the Release team will agree to have such updates in stable.
> > Although, I would be happy to discuss this with them.
> >
> > --
> > Dmitry Shachnev
> 
> 
> --
> Soren Stoutner
> so...@stoutner.com

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