Hi, as discussed before (http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2010/08/msg01848.html) we need to document the de-facto status of Squeeze browser support in the release notes. Proposed text below.
Any objections and/or spelling improvements by native speakers? [Webkit, Chromium and KDE maintainers CC.] Cheers, Moritz ---------- State of browser support Debian Squeeze includes several browser engines which are affected by a frequent stream of security vulnerabilities. The high rate of vulnerabilities and lack of upstream support in the form of long term branches make it close to impossible to support these browsers with backported security fixes. Additionally, library interdepencies make it impossible to update to newer upstream releases. As such, browsers built upon the webkit, qtwebkit and khtml engines are included in Squeeze, but not covered by full security support. We will make an effort to track down and backport security fixes, but in general these browsers should not be used against untrusted websites. For general web browser use we recommend browsers building on the Mozilla xulrunner engine (Iceweasel and Iceape) or Chromium. Xulrunner has had a history of good backportability for older releases over the previous release cycles. Chromium - while build upon the Webkit codebase - is a leaf package, i.e. if backporting becomes no longer feasible, there's still the possibility of upgrading to a later upstream release (which is not possible for the webkit library itself). Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110110195601.ga9...@inutil.org