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From: Sebastian Humenda <shumenda@gmx.de>
To: edbrowse-dev@edbrowse.org
Subject: Re: QuickJS and maintenance
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 10:48:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+TBUN0pEpeUt0iS@kraftkrust> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y+SrEMt0b+KGuevm@pinebook-pro>

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Hi

Adam Thompson schrieb am 09.02.2023,  8:13 +0000:
>On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 05:33:03AM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote:
>> I don't understand why there would be security concerns with quickjs. It is
>> a language interpreter. It either works or it doesn't. All the security
>> concerns fall on edbrowse, which is already packaged in several distros.
>
>To provide a little more context, whereas adding an additional interpreter
>does create an additional package requiring security support, it is no more
>than any other library as far as its integration with Edbrowse. We're a lot
>less js-centric in terms of our browsing engine than other browsers and
>Quickjs is a lot more of a pure interpreter than more browser-integrated js
>engines, at least that's how it appears.

Thanks for the context and your clarifications.

My intent has not been to enforce any decision or to criticise what is being
done. I know that the developer base of Edbrowse is small and I am working in
similar projects to know the maintenance burden of dependencies. This is
exactly why I brought this up: understanding the rationale behind the
decision. However, I still ask for a bit more understanding for the Debian
view, as the Security team needs to know about QuickJS (among more than 38000
other packages). QA is taken seriously, so my e-mail is just a step in that
process :-). I'll take your arguments to the security team and let's see where
it goes. It might well be that QuickJS is soon in Debian with the arguments
made.

Thanks
Sebastian

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-09  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-08  9:32 Sebastian Humenda
2023-02-08 10:33 ` Karl Dahlke
2023-02-09  8:13   ` Adam Thompson
2023-02-09  9:48     ` Sebastian Humenda [this message]
2023-02-11  8:10       ` Adam Thompson
2023-02-11  9:56         ` Sebastian Humenda
2023-02-11 10:32           ` Karl Dahlke
2023-02-12  7:39             ` Sebastian Humenda
2023-02-12 18:54               ` Adam Thompson

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