On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Pavlos K. Ponos wrote: > Since the latest gcc version for Wheezy is the 4.7 and Chromium "moves" to > 4.8, what shall we do?
Follow the advice in DSA-3148-1: upgrade to jessie or switch to the iceweasel web browser. > Till the next stable release (Jessie), are we vulnerable to security issues? If you continue to use chromium from Debian wheezy yes. > this goes against the "stable philosophy" of Debian, at least in its stable > version. The policy for Debian stable has limits based in the reality of software development. > So, what are the alternatives in our case? Upgrade to jessie or switch to another web browser. > Maybe it sound a "stupid" question but what about if we keep track of > backports and proposed updates in Wheezy? chromium was already being backported to wheezy for security updates, the latest versions need newer compilers so we can't backport any more. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caktje6fpyxvtvwuqmcwcprmnsjqj2izwmplzjlqzcma85om...@mail.gmail.com
