Package: chromium Severity: important Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: pitsior...@gmail.com
~20 days ago, google announced that they are limiting api availability on March 15th 2021. https://blog.chromium.org/2021/01/limiting-private-api-availability-in.html This means that sync and some other features will stop working from that day on and users that use them will complain and file bug reports. Other distros are already discussing the subject and some even suggest the removal of chromium from their repos, so I think it is time for debian users and maintainers to do it too. So, what will debian do? Let me hear your thoughts. p.s. I am the least affected user by that change. I do not use sync or any other of the services that are will stop functioning. In fact, I do not use sync on any of my browsers. On top of that, I no longer use chromium after last year's huge delays in major updates. But here I am, opening the discussion for its future in debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages chromium depends on: pn chromium-common <none> ii libasound2 1.2.4-1.1 ii libatk-bridge2.0-0 2.38.0-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2 ii libatomic1 10.2.1-6 ii libatspi2.0-0 2.38.0-2 ii libavcodec58 10:4.3.1-dmo10 ii libavformat58 10:4.3.1-dmo10 ii libavutil56 10:4.3.1-dmo10 ii libc6 2.31-9 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-5 ii libcups2 2.3.3op1-7 ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.20-1 ii libdrm2 2.4.104-1 ii libevent-2.1-7 2.1.12-stable-1 ii libexpat1 2.2.10-1 ii libflac8 1.3.3-2 ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.2 ii libfreetype6 2.10.4+dfsg-1 ii libgbm1 20.3.4-1 ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6 ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.2+dfsg-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.4-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.24-1 ii libharfbuzz0b 2.7.4-1 ii libicu67 67.1-6 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:2.0.5-2 pn libjsoncpp24 <none> ii liblcms2-2 2.12~rc1-2 pn libminizip1 <none> ii libnspr4 2:4.29-1 ii libnss3 2:3.60-1 ii libopenjp2-7 2.4.0-1 ii libopus0 1.3.1-0.1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.46.2-3 ii libpng16-16 1.6.37-3 ii libpulse0 14.1-1 pn libre2-9 <none> ii libsnappy1v5 1.1.8-1 ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6 ii libvpx6 1.9.0-dmo1 ii libwebp6 0.6.1-2+b1 ii libwebpdemux2 0.6.1-2+b1 ii libwebpmux3 0.6.1-2+b1 ii libx11-6 2:1.7.0-2 ii libxcb1 1.14-3 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.5-1 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.5-2 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1.1 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-2 ii libxml2 2.9.10+dfsg-6.3+b1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1 ii libxslt1.1 1.1.34-4 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2 Versions of packages chromium recommends: pn chromium-sandbox <none> Versions of packages chromium suggests: pn chromium-driver <none> pn chromium-l10n <none> pn chromium-shell <none>
