Package: chromium
Followup-For: Bug #941060

For starters, the source packages of v78 have reached the repos yesterday, at
long last.

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1077494/accepted-chromium-780390487-1-source-
into-unstable/

As for the "Updates used to be provided regularly" part.
As a user whose half the bug reports start with "please update X to its new
version" I can assure you that not all debian maintainers are punctual (maybe
not the right word) in updating their packages. There are packages which are
simply abandoned and have not gotten any updates in years, despite being
regularly updated by upstream and packages who get updated after a lot of
request, e.g. qbittorrent was updated to 4.1.x after a developer of the app
himself opened an issue report here (#908974)!
Thankfully, chromium was not one of them until 76. Sadly, it now is.

On top of that, let's just say that after the release of debian 10 as stable
last July, the pace of which packages are updated is much slower than the
previous times. Why? I have no idea. All I can see is that slow pace being
reflected on major and minor packages, e.g. plasma and its apps were updated in
September and some other

Chromium is/was no exception to this... idleness. The differences chromium has
compared to the rest is that a) chromium is popular and b) it has a built in
mechanism which warns the user, thus the many bug reports.
Can you imagine what would happen if every app that now lags behind had a
similar built in mechanism?

And that was it. Although I have moved to chrome and I am not willing to return
to chromium anytime soon, I will install it as soon as it reaches the repos. I
have kept my chromium  profile intact and, before deleting it forever, I am
curious to see what issues will suck a major change (v76 to v78) will bring,
e.g. I am 99% sure that at least 1 of my 4 extensions will break and I will
have to reinstall it and reconfigure it again.

p.s. I think that an explanation from the maintainers for that huge delay is
kinda mandatory now.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
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           1.1.8-2
ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0   2.34.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.34.1-1
ii  libatomic1           9.2.1-16
ii  libatspi2.0-0        2.34.0-3
ii  libavcodec58         10:4.2.1-dmo6
ii  libavformat58        10:4.2.1-dmo6
ii  libavutil56          10:4.2.1-dmo6
ii  libc6                2.29-2
ii  libcairo-gobject2    1.16.0-4
ii  libcairo2            1.16.0-4
ii  libcups2             2.3.0-6
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.12.16-2
ii  libdrm2              2.4.99-1
ii  libevent-2.1-6       2.1.8-stable-4
ii  libexpat1            2.2.9-1
ii  libflac8             1.3.3-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.13.1-2+b1
ii  libfreetype6         2.10.1-2
ii  libgcc1              1:9.2.1-16
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.40.0+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.62.2-2
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.24.12-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b        2.6.2-1
ii  libicu63             63.2-2
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.5.2-2+b1
ii  libjsoncpp1          1.7.4-3+b1
ii  liblcms2-2           2.9-3+b1
pn  libminizip1          <none>
ii  libnspr4             2:4.23-1
ii  libnss3              2:3.47-1
ii  libopenjp2-7         2.3.1-1
ii  libopus0             1.3-1+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.42.4-7
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.42.4-7
ii  libpci3              1:3.6.2-2
ii  libpng16-16          1.6.37-1
ii  libpulse0            13.0-3
pn  libre2-5             <none>
ii  libsnappy1v5         1.1.7-1+b1
ii  libstdc++6           9.2.1-16
ii  libvpx6              1.8.1-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             2:1.6.8-1
ii  libx11-xcb1          2:1.6.8-1
ii  libxcb1              1.13.1-2
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.2.0-2
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.5-1
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.9-1
ii  libxml2              2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b3
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.5.1-1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.32-2.2
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.3-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.3-1
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+b1

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>

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