Should we remove chromium-browser from the archive?

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 4:13 AM Olivier Tilloy
<olivier.tilloy at canonical.com> wrote:
> > 18.04 users upgrading to 22.04 will expect that their profile
> > (bookmarks, cookies, passwords, settings) from the full chromium package
> > isn't lost. How will this be guaranteed if the transitional package is
> > dropped?
>
> Their profile won't be lost, as uninstalling the deb leaves the
> profile directory untouched.
> However it is true that dist-upgrading from 18.04 to 22.04 would
> result in chromium being uninstalled, and users would have to manually
> re-install the snap (which would then pick up the existing profiles).
> Not a nice user experience.

We don't support skipping LTS releases when upgrading.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha