Good example: Chromium blob found by Debian (via LWN)

Daniel Krebs mailinglist at krebs.uno
Sat Jun 20 08:22:52 UTC 2015


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Am 19.06.2015 um 18:23 schrieb Paul Hänsch:
> On 2015-06-19 12:40, Daniel Krebs wrote:
>> If I understand the links correctly the change "did make its way 
>> into Debian unstable without being noticed." So in fact it was 
>> found after it has been implemented wasn't it?
> 
> Well, "Debian unstable" kind of serves the purpose of finding
> issues with software. It is explicitly not meant for end users.

You're right, I mixed up 'testing and 'unstable'. Nevertheless it would
be better if it had been noticed in the chromium source code before
getting into the distros?

DK
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