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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott,

The 'PPA' I think you refer to [1] is not supported, and has not been for
over a year. The Ubuntu team are simply concentrating on having SRU's. The
PPA link I provided states that is not 'official', and this information was
sent to the QA/Testing members only. I also stated that if they were to use
it, they should know how to 'roll back'. At present, there seems no formal
method of getting Chromium from 'dev', to 'beta' to 'released'. Security
updates from the current version on release to the dev version are over 2
release steps out of sync. which is not ideal, but out of my hands.

Regards,

Phill.
1. https://launchpad.net/chromium-project

On 15 April 2013 22:14, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Monday, April 15, 2013 10:11:05 PM Phill Whiteside wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > whilst the ubuntu guys do ensure timely updates for chromium, there are
> > some of us who do not mind being on the bleeding edge. The dev version of
> > chromium has now been added to raring. Please understand that this is not
> > the 'stable beta' which seems to have fallen by the way side owing to not
> > enough man hours. If you want to 'play safe' then use the standard
> upgrades
> > that apply, if you want to try out the 'dev' version, then add Alex's
> PPA.
> > [1].
> >
> > As with all 'dev' versions, it may break so do be aware of how to 'roll
> > back'. But, for me it only had a (non-critical) bug for a couple of days
> in
> > the last 12 months.
> >
> > @Alex, thanks for keeping the dev PPA updated.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill.
> > 1. https://launchpad.net/~a-v-shkop/+archive/chromium-dev
>
> Phil,
>
> Please keep a clear distinction between Ubuntu and other related things.
> There is an Ubuntu archive that's supported by the Ubuntu project.  Many
> people like to provide other packages in PPAs (such as this), but they are
> most emphatically not part of Ubuntu.  People installing software from PPAs
> need to do their own due diligence as there is absolutely no external QA or
> security checks done of what goes into a PPA, so it's important that people
> understand if they are doing thing from the official archive or not.
>
> Scott K
>
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