Bug#649625: webkit unmaintained security-wise (again)

Gustavo Noronha Silva kov at debian.org
Thu Jan 26 18:19:52 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 10:03 -0600, Micah Gersten wrote:
> In Ubuntu, we need to maintain a stable branch of webkitgtk+ for 5 years
> for our upcoming LTS.  That is from Apr 2012 to Apr 2017.  We'll be
> using the webkitgtk+ 1.8 branch since it's the most recent with GTK2 and
> GTK3 support.  I'd like to find other like minded people to help
> maintain this branch.  I assume that if Debian can standardize on 1.8,
> that would be helpful for 3.5 years or so (6 months until wheezy
> releases, 2 yrs of stable, 1 yr of old stable).  How does this sound to
> people?

That sounds great to me. Do you have someone in WebKit's security group?
There are two people nominated but pending approval (Vincent -
GNOME/SuSE and Josseline - Debian), it would be good to get more distro
people in there, I think; I'm planning on writing an email asking what
we could do in order to get those nominations accepted. Would be good to
have more WebKitGTK+ people in there too, what do you think Martin? =)

Cheers,

-- 
Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>
Debian
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