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>
