[Pkg-chromium-maint] Debian Stable chromium-browser version lagging behind

Michael Gilbert mgilbert at debian.org
Thu Aug 16 17:37:45 UTC 2012


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Forrest Gump wrote:
> Hey,
>
> chromium-browser is currently version 20 on Debian Testing; version 21 on
> Debian Unstable; and version 6 on Debian Stable.
>
> Why is Debian Stable lagging so far behind? Is it due to chromium-browser's
> dependencies not being up-to-date?

Because Debian Stable is a "stable" release.  It has software that was
around at the time when it's development was frozen (August 2010).

Best wishes,
Mike



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