Release notes entry for web browser security support

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Mon Jan 10 22:12:39 UTC 2011


Heya,

Le lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 20:56 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff a écrit : 
> As such, browsers built upon the webkit, qtwebkit
> and khtml engines are included in Squeeze, but not covered by full security 
> support. We will make an effort to track down and backport security fixes,
> but in general these browsers should not be used against untrusted websites.

I was under the impression that upstream promised long-term maintenance
for the webkit 1.2 branch. It is one of the reasons for which epiphany
was kept as the default browser for GNOME. Is that no longer true?

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