Who does what?

[ChrisUK]

After a timely Chromium update, I checked what version was in other Distros, and found that MX is more up-to-date than many others (and not behind Arch). This isn't a surprise, as it's one of the reasons that I use MX Linux. But it got me thinking; who built and uploaded this to the repos?

So, how about a thread/sticky/notice of who does what in the dev team? Or is there one already that has escaped my notice? There's a great deal of work goes on in the background to maintain a Distro... might be good to publicise more those that beaver-away in the background

[Jerry3904]

There's a gross overview on the Home page, About Us

[ChrisUK]

Thanks, Jerry - you can delete this pointless thread now

[Jerry3904]

Ah, but the devil's in the details!

[Stevo]

Debian is currently keeping Chromium backported in their stable repos, because of security holes in older versions and the difficulty of backporting the fixes. Packages that they make an exception for the "no newer versions" policy because of those concerns are called "leaf" packages, and another example are the recent VLC 3.02 and 3.0.3 upgrades. We were doing our own backports of VLC before, but Debian made those obsolete.

We do have a thread where the packagers can post what they're working on, or there's this page: http://mxrepo.com/ though it should be updated for the dropping of MX 14 and MEPIS 12 support.

You can tell where they from by looking at the end of the version.

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$ apt policy chromium
chromium:
  Installed: 68.0.3440.75-1~deb9u1
  Candidate: 68.0.3440.75-1~deb9u1
  Version table:
 *** 68.0.3440.75-1~deb9u1 500
        500 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     63.0.3239.84-1~deb9u1 500
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages

The "deb9u1" means that it's update 1 for Debian 9. You can also see which repo it came from with that command. MX packages should have "mx" somewhere in the version, though an exception can be made for native MX programs such as MX Tools.

AntiX doesn't seem to add suffixes to the version, so you'd have to look at the repository listing instead.

[Jerry3904]

Pretty sure Stevo posted in the wrong thread...

[ChrisUK]

Pretty sure Stevo posted in the wrong thread...

I think he's saying; "it wasn't us, it was Debian that supplied the update to Chromium". So I should have checked apt before using it as an example

EDIT: I forgot to say thanks to @Stevo for the detailed info

[Adrian]

Pretty sure Stevo posted in the wrong thread...

The devil is in the details...

[Stevo]

Pretty sure Stevo posted in the wrong thread...

I think he's saying; "it wasn't us, it was Debian that supplied the update to Chromium". So I should have checked apt before using it as an example

EDIT: I forgot to say thanks to @Stevo for the detailed info

Yes, that's what I was replying to.

Deb-multimedia also adds "dmo" to their versioning, and having one of those show up in installed packages often is the first clue to why someone's multimedia playback has gone south.