Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Colin Law]

On 17 October 2017 at 17:09, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> I have had a similar issue with Chrome, the browser written by a company who
> collects personal information.  This 'open source' program has part that is
> 'not open source'.  I cannot keep it off my computer.  Whenever I accept
> updates from Ubuntu (16.04), there is lots of 'chrome' afterwards.

Can you tell us the name of one of the offending packages please, and
also what you see for
apt-cache policy the-package-name

Colin