Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > Me too. I am surprised that the answer is not to automatically > download and install Canonical’s Snap package; they seem to have > figured out everything already. Arch manages to do it by having very > few patches and using the upstream source tarball.
If you think that just using the binary blobs provided by upstream or some third party (e.g., Canonical) is a solution for anything, you clearly have not understood how distribution packaging works. At most, that approach can work for leaf applications such as the Chromium browser, but the Chromium code is also used in QtWebEngine and in Electron, both of which are used to build many desktop applications. QtWebEngine is used in browsers (Falkon, Angelfish), mail clients (KMail, Kontact), etc. As far as qt5-qtwebengine is concerned, there is no way I can issue a security update at this time because the security fixes have not been backported by Qt upstream yet: https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebengine-chromium.git/log/?h=87-based The fixes up to CVE-2021-4102 are included in the 5.15.8 security update that I pushed, CVE-2022-* are not backported upstream yet. (Well, technically, I suppose I could attempt to backport them from 90- based, i.e., from QtWebengine 6.2: https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebengine-chromium.git/log/?h=90-based or even directly from Chromium upstream, but that is extremely time- consuming and not something I can do on a regular basis.) And for a library such as QtWebEngine, Snap or Flatpak do not work at all. Even if you only care about the standalone Chromium, using a third-party blob will lose you the benefits of distribution packaging. Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
