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Chromium 6 in squeeze

From:  Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe-AT-iuculano.it>
To:  debian-release-AT-lists.debian.org
Subject:  Chromium 6 in squeeze
Date:  Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:24:43 +0200
Message-ID:  <4C7E0DCB.8020706@iuculano.it>
Cc:  Debain Chromium Maintainers <pkg-chromium-maint-AT-lists.alioth.debian.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Hi Release Team,


In the next few days upstream will release chromium 6 in the stable
channel. This means that v5 will not receive any further (security)
update, and v6 will receive security and stability updates.

I could start to backport patches, but unfortunately there are some
important webkit security issues (SVG related) that are hard to backport
due to at least one or two major refactoring[1] of the SVG code.
This means that any future SVG security issue (and unfortunately they
are frequent) will be hard to fix.

Therefore I kindly ask you permission to upload chromium 6 in unstable.


[1] http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/57886
    http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/58212

Cheers,
Giuseppe.



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