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<p>Not to mention, the rdepends of the package:</p>
<p># apt-cache rdepends chromium-browser<br>
chromium-browser<br>
Reverse Depends:<br>
chromium-browser-l10n<br>
gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect-browsers<br>
|gnome-core<br>
chromium-chromedriver<br>
chrome-gnome-shell<br>
chrome-gnome-shell</p>
<p>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.<br>
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<p>Thomas</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/8/22 14:29, Gunnar Hjalmarsson
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:bbc2bc09-0e9c-6cb0-8517-0e3b65e3bc60@ubuntu.com">Hi
Olivier!
<br>
<br>
On 2022-02-08 19:33, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">The chromium-browser package has been a
"transitional" package that
<br>
installs the chromium snap since Ubuntu 19.10. Full-fledged deb
<br>
packages are still being built for 18.04.
<br>
<br>
The question of whether to remove this transitional package from
the
<br>
archive altogether has come up, so I'm sharing it here to get
insights
<br>
and feedback from a wider audience before making an informed
decision.
<br>
<br>
Some features of the deb package that are worth taking into
account:
<br>
- /usr/bin/{chromium-browser,chromedriver} symlinks to their
snap counterparts
<br>
- a postinst script that installs alternatives for
x-www-browser and
<br>
gnome-www-browser (unfortunately snapd doesn't have any
mechanism for
<br>
this yet)
<br>
- a custom apport hook that collects additional information
about the
<br>
snap and its dependencies
<br>
- did I miss any other features?
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Can't tell, but those are important enough, aren't they?
<br>
<br>
Your message made me think of bugs like these:
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/bugs/1947600">https://launchpad.net/bugs/1947600</a>
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/bugs/1950550">https://launchpad.net/bugs/1950550</a>
<br>
<br>
And today I had a reason to install xsane.
<br>
<br>
$ apt-cache show xsane | grep Recommends
<br>
Recommends: cups-client, firefox | www-browser
<br>
<br>
As you see it pulled the Firefox .deb even if I have the Firefox
snap installed.
<br>
<br>
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.)
<br>
<br>
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