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Upstream has done that already. Google patched those bugs months ago.

• edoceo 5y ago
  Are we helping Debian get those processed into Bullseye? Or we just barking ideals? We all know FOSS is under staffed and under funded. Perhaps Google should have one FTE for each major distro to help keep that beast of a codebase up to the standard these threads seem to expect. It's a heavy burden to place on Debian - and I don't think it's fair to expect them to have eg Chromium and the 10-hundred other packages perfect. Debian is fscking awesome, they are doing amazing work. Hip Hip Hooray!!
  • SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
    The burden is entirely Debian's choice. They want to mess around backporting fixes. They could just package upstream's releases, but that would break their choice of stability model. The downsides of that choice of model is nobody's fault but their own.
    • pabs3 5y ago
      Debian just pulls in upstream updates for Chromium, since it is basically impossible to provide the normal patch backport method of security updates for modern web browsers, including Chromium and Firefox.
      • SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
        Yep. It's other packages that they try to maintain backports (forks) on. Browsers are basically sub-OSes, and very difficult to fork.