epiphany-browser: Don't include in Buster

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Tue Apr 16 14:55:33 BST 2019


On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 18:54:32 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> The current plan is to provide security updates for webkit2gtk for
> Debian 10 similar to how security support has been offered for Ubuntu
> 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS. It's best-effort: there is no guarantee that
> Debian will be able to provide security updates for the full normal
> life of Debian 10, but we'll try to do the updates as long as it seems
> practical to the ones doing the work.

Who is the "we" in this plan? (The GNOME team? The webkit2gtk maintainers?
The release team? The security team?)

How confident can we be that the necessary starting-point version is
going to get unblocked and included in buster? Is webkit2gtk 2.24 unblock
request <https://bugs.debian.org/926929> considered to be a prerequisite
for being able to do ongoing security updates to webkit2gtk in buster?

At the moment I'm not sure whether the desired solution to
epiphany-browser unblock request <https://bugs.debian.org/924974> is to
update epiphany-browser to 3.32.x, or to have it removed from buster.
I'm reasonably sure 3.31.x is not what we want to be shipping for 2 years,
though.

    smcv



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