Chromium is not in "main", i.e. it's officially unsupported by Canonical. Formally, only approved Ubuntu community members (MOTUs) support chromium in Ubuntu, while Canonical does not guarantee any support at all.
That's the formal aspect at least. In practice, it seems like a Canonical employee, Chad Miller, thankfully does most (all?) of the Chromium work. It's a pretty important package after all, but as you can tell from the not quite optimal security support (still 50+ open security vulnerabilities right now and generally lagging a few weeks or months behind with security fixes), it's on a "best-effort" basis. Maybe Chad does the work in his free time, or it's just a low priority work task for him. So don't expect an official statement from an Ubuntu representative because formally, Chromium is not a part of Ubuntu that Canonical cares about. Use Firefox which is in "main" and the default browser if you want Canonical support (or maybe if you can pay some signficant amount of money, Canonical would offer to support Chromium for you). It is important to note that shipping Chromium in a distro is very difficult. Google seems to care about their own packaging, and that's it. It's not an easy upstream to work with. It has bundled source copies of libraries, until some time ago not even official release tarballs, it's a very fast moving target and there is no backwards compatibility for anything. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1359615 Title: [precise] critical: flash stopped working after last update Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ubuntu released new version of chromium-browser (36.0.1985.125-0ubuntu1.12.04.0~pkg897) for LTS 12.04 precise relase. After updating chromium-browser from previous version (34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu~1.12.04.0~pkg884) flash plugin stopped working. Flash plugin is properly installed but it chromium does not see it and show message that is not installed. Firefox has no problem and can load flash object. I suspect that this is because of dropping NPAPI support in chrome 36. But ubuntu does not have pepper flash in repositories so it is not possible to use flash on 12.04 anymore. So this is critical problem because one month ago everything worked fine and new *broken* version of chromium-browser is in precise- security/universe archive. I suggest to revert chromium back to *working* version or do something else -- because new *security* update totally broke flash support on 12.04 LTS release. Once again 12.04 is LTS release where is expected that updates marked as security will *not* break existing application support -- this is not *experimental* update. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1359615/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
