chromium no longer maintained

[John Moser]

On 09/04/2012 07:13 AM, Daniel Hollocher wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
> It would be nice if someone could step up and maintain the
> chromium-browser version of chromium, but for whatever reason, that
> isn't happening.  Shouldn't the ppas at least be updated to state that
> the version held is out of date?  Shouldn't version 18 be removed from
> the archive?
>

There has long been talk of switching to Chromium by default in Ubuntu 
new installs.  For a while wasn't it the default browser in Xubuntu?

Look if it gets Google to give Canonical more money (i.e. from product 
placement, like with the Firefox package's search bar functionality 
embedding Canonical's adsense ID into Google searches) I say Chromium 
should be maintained so the portion of the userbase who uses it doesn't 
go using a downloaded/hand-compiled package and not generating any revenue.

>
> Dan
>