Should we remove chromium-browser from the archive?

[Thomas Ward]

Not to mention, the rdepends of the package:

# apt-cache rdepends chromium-browser
chromium-browser
Reverse Depends:
   chromium-browser-l10n
   gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect-browsers
  |gnome-core
   chromium-chromedriver
   chrome-gnome-shell
   chrome-gnome-shell

We'd have to do some erasure of some packages (potentially transitional) 
and some other packages as well as a few shell extensions in order to 
make this removal work I think.


Thomas


On 2/8/22 14:29, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Hi Olivier!
>
> On 2022-02-08 19:33, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
>> The chromium-browser package has been a "transitional" package that
>> installs the chromium snap since Ubuntu 19.10. Full-fledged deb
>> packages are still being built for 18.04.
>>
>> The question of whether to remove this transitional package from the
>> archive altogether has come up, so I'm sharing it here to get insights
>> and feedback from a wider audience before making an informed decision.
>>
>> Some features of the deb package that are worth taking into account:
>>   - /usr/bin/{chromium-browser,chromedriver} symlinks to their snap 
>> counterparts
>>   - a postinst script that installs alternatives for x-www-browser and
>> gnome-www-browser (unfortunately snapd doesn't have any mechanism for
>> this yet)
>>   - a custom apport hook that collects additional information about the
>> snap and its dependencies
>>   - did I miss any other features?
>
> Can't tell, but those are important enough, aren't they?
>
> Your message made me think of bugs like these:
>
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1947600
>
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1950550
>
> And today I had a reason to install xsane.
>
> $ apt-cache show xsane | grep Recommends
> Recommends: cups-client, firefox | www-browser
>
> As you see it pulled the Firefox .deb even if I have the Firefox snap 
> installed.
>
> So as long as there is no other mechanism to make the system recognize 
> the FF snap and/or the Chromium snap as a www-browser, I suppose we 
> need such transitional packages. (Waiting for the FF equivalent.)
>
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