Micro release exception request for Chromium

Mark Shuttleworth mark at ubuntu.com
Thu Oct 7 11:51:03 BST 2010


On 06/10/10 14:09, Fabien Tassin wrote:
> I would like to request a SRU micro version update exception for the
> chromium browser package and its direct dependencies (all part of the
> same upstream source tree):
> - chromium-browser
> - chromium-codecs-ffmpeg
> - gyp (google equivalent of autoconf)

+1 from me, as long as we stick to the discipline of:

> At the request of the security team sponsoring my stable updates, i'm
> now trying hard to refrain myself from landing all my packaging changes
> into each release. So for SRU, I now land:
> - ftbfs fixes (patches, or build-dep bumps mandatory to make it build)
> - security fixes or improvements (like the PIE hardening requested by
> the security team)
> - some user bugs (with documented bug-ids, like workarounds for plugin
> crashers)
> - eventually some very low risk improvements (such as desktop file
> translations)
>
> Everything else will end up in major updates.

Mark



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