Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add inox.

[ng0]

Hi,

great to see this produced something usable (although not yet
shipable).

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:

> David Craven <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> One thing that worries me about Inox is that version 53 is very old and
>>> likely contains known vulnerabilities. Do you know if they backport
>>> fixes? If not, I think we should try to stick with upstream Chromium.
>>
>> This is due to me not having worked on it for a while. Inox are just a couple
>> of patches and default configure flags, but it's still chromium. I'm not too
>> concerned with inox, but *whisper* I got the impression that there where
>> FSDG issues with chromium. By applying a bunch of patches and calling it
>> inox instead of chromium, I think it could be considered a "good faith 
>> effort",
>> and the problem avoided until someone complains.
>>
>> Another interesting collection of chromium patches would be:
>> https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
>
> I actually picked most of the patches from ungoogled-chromium (which
> includes inox and iridium), but skipped "high maintenance" ones. This
> started as an attempt to package that very project, but they were
> lagging too far behind upstream IMO.
>
> FSDG problems is the reason I haven't advertised it. At the very least,
> the Google integrations should be disabled and analytics removed (but
> Chromium can't currently build without either). I think if most of the
> "FIXMEs" are resolved upstream, it might be eligible for a free distro.

You haven't invested too much time in hoping upstream will really
do this, that they really care. Last time I gave inox/chromium a
try I've found
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28287 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270322

So either fedora really forked it (been too long since I've
looked at this) or they figured out a way to improve their
package.
You might want to get in touch with the maintainers for chromium
at fedora.

> Now that the cat is out of the box, feel free to send patches somewhere
> and I'll incorporate them in the branch :-)

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