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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 choi
by 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 agoDebian 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 agoYep. It's other packages that they try to maintain backports (forks) on. Browsers are basically sub-OSes, and very difficult to fork.