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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That's fantastic news!

Thanks,

Phill.

On 6 November 2012 14:17, Micah Gersten <micahg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/05/2012 07:21 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > it is apparent that the SRU / Updates of Chromium have stalled. This
> > does directly affect Lubuntu as we ship it as default. Julien (gilir)
> > has given me some pointers as to how to get SRU updates done, but I see
> > that at [1] it has a tech-board exception. You voiced concern at using
> > alex's PPA.
> >
> >
> >     I had contacted Micah Gersten <micahg@xxxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:micahg@xxxxxxxxxx>> some time ago about involving my PPA
> >     into Ubuntu release. He said that he is not comfortable about using
> >     non-ubuntu dev packages in Chromium repositories, but he could use
> >     my scripts.
> >
> >
> > I had a quick chat with duty SRU person earlier and he suggested I
> > contact you directly.
> >
> > Yes, I'm new to SRU, but am also the Lubuntu QA liason person and would
> > really like to help out. Julien (gilir) stated:
> >
> >     For stable releases, we should not use any PPA, it should be
> directly in
> >     the repositories.
> >     In the past, stable releases was uploaded in all supported releases.
> >     Recently, nobody maintains chromium anymore in Ubuntu. So, I think it
> >     would be very useful if the stable releases can be packaged and
> propose
> >     as a SRU [1]. I'm sure it will be easy to find someone to upload
> them if
> >     it's well prepared.
> >     I can provide some guidance if it's necessary, and I think it's a
> very
> >     good way to contribute to Ubuntu.
> >     Regards,
> >     Julien Lavergne
> >     [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
> >
> >
> >
> > If you could spend a little time to let me know what needs doing for the
> > updates to be accepted I'd be happy to take on the 'donkey work' of
> > having these mix of security & feature fixes set up for approval. As
> > with, e.g. firefox, is the fact that it works on current enough to ask
> > that they be tested by the lubuntu-qa people and then get 'back ported'
> > or is that a totally different thing? On this, I'm asking what would the
> > correct method of resolving this bug [2]?  I'm on Version 23.0.1271.1
> > Ubuntu 12.10 (157674)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill.
> > 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions
> > 2.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/608538
> >
> > --
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
> >
>
> There is someone now working on Chromium.  As soon as we have new
> packages, we can push an update to the stable releases. I'll forward
> this on to him, and he can probably respond with more detail.
>
> Thanks,
>
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>
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