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But by that logic no web browser can be in Debian stable.
by Already__Taken 6y ago
But by that logic no web browser can be in Debian stable.
- akiselev 6y agoFrom the article: >Beyond Kubernetes, web browsers clearly fall into this category. Distributors have generally given up on trying to backport patches to older browser releases; they just move their users forward to new releases when they happen. The resources to do things any other way just do not exist. Exceptions are already made for browsers, but they're browsers. They're practically essential to 99% of graphical debian installs and don't expose the really nasty unstable bits (like V8's api surface) to the world. I doubt the debian TC will make that exception for devops software with much less mindshare and a public API surface that is the software, at least not on the stable channel.
- jancsika 6y agoDebian just makes an exception for the Firefox and Chromium packages. You can tell that is what the current maintainer was hoping for here. Instead, the previous maintainer-- who literally wrote that it would probably take two full-time devs to properly package this and maintain the package-- goes full Vogon and summons the great Debian bureaucracy to solve this with their poetry.
- jlgaddis 6y agoNote that there is no "firefox" package in Debian stable -- only "firefox-esr".