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[Micah Gersten <micahg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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,