Hello Olivier, or anyone else affected, Accepted chromium-browser into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed- focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification- failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu Focal) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-focal -- 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/1892724 Title: Bump package epoch to 1 to ensure working upgrade path and transition to snap Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in chromium-browser source package in Focal: Fix Committed Bug description: As a follow-up to bug #1889106, it was decided that the best solution to handle recurring version bumps for chromium-browser updates in stable series was to bump the package epoch to 1. See the discussion in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2020-August/041127.html. This needs to be done in groovy (done) and SRUed to focal. [Impact] Users upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 will not get the latest chromium snap replacing the chromium-browser deb package as intended as soon as a security update is published to bionic-security (which happens typically every 2-3 weeks). This is because the version number in 18.04 often ends up being greater than the version in 20.04. Bumping the version number in 20.04 is enough to fix this, and was done a few times already (bug #1858500, bug #1889106), but it is tedious and impractical. [Test Case] * Ensure that a version of chromium-browser newer than 84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 is available in bionic-{security,updates} (not currently the case, but will soon happen as version 85.0.4183.83 was just released upstream) * On a machine running 18.04, ensure that the chromium snap is *not* installed, then install the chromium-browser deb package: sudo apt install chromium-browser * Upgrade that machine to Ubuntu 20.04 * When upgrading, the chromium-browser package becomes a transitional package that installs the chromium snap * Verify that the chromium snap is installed [Regression Potential] * The chromium snap has some known shortcomings and regressions compared to the deb package, they are being tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bugs?field.tag=snap. Auto-upgrading users from the deb to the snap is the desired behaviour though. [Original Description] For a complete rationale, see comments #4, #5, #7 and #8 in bug #1889106, and the discussion in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives /ubuntu-devel/2020-August/041127.html. This needs to be done in groovy and SRUed to focal. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1892724/+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