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If they care about both a fast development cycle and rapid adoption then spending time getting an official package for Debian/etc. makes no sense. > It doesn't
by jancsika 7y ago
If they care about both a fast development cycle and rapid adoption then spending time getting an official package for Debian/etc. makes no sense.
> It doesn't imply anything serious, just that it can be built from source and that it passed the distro's basic diligence and guidelines.
For a modern web browser it probably doesn't achieve the latter. Both Chromium and Firefox are too complex for Debian's meager backporting resources. So they make an exception to their guidelines and ship the LTS release. I suppose the userbase just hopes that bad things don't if the browser LTS upgrade happens before the OS's LTS upgrade is ready.
- bubblethink 7y agoFirefox has an LTS release, but chromium doesn't. So distros just ship the update every month whenever chromium is tagged. In practice, it follows chrome's release cycle very closely. Since brave is based on chromium, I don't see why this model can't work for brave given that distos are able to build and ship chromium already. (Android is a more complicated story )
- pkulak 7y agoThen make a Flatpak.