• Bug#939406: ITP: ungoogled-chromium -- Web browser that aims to build a

    From Stefan Monnier@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 11 16:50:02 2024
    Please work on the already existing (and patched!) chromium in the archive instead of adding one additional chromium-based browser that then also lacks team power. If you need any additional patches on Debian's chromium that are in ungoogled chromium, make them available in Debian's chromium.

    Does that mean that Debian's `chromium` is also "ungoogled"?
    That would admittedly make a lot of sense.
    I see a directory `ungoogled` in

    https://sources.debian.org/src/chromium/121.0.6167.160-1/debian/patches/

    but it contains a fairly trivial patch that doesn't do what I expect "ungoogled" to mean.

    If it is indeed, ungoogled, then the package's description should say
    so, shouldn't it? Currently it just says:

    Description: web browser
    Web browser that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable internet
    browsing experience.

    This package contains the web browser component.

    which doesn't hint at it being ungoogled at all.


    Stefan

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  • From Bastian Germann@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 12 21:30:01 2024
    Am 11.02.24 um 16:40 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
    but it contains a fairly trivial patch that doesn't do what I expect "ungoogled" to mean.

    I guess you expect the rest of the patch set at https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/tree/master/patches/core/ungoogled-chromium
    to be applied. Please ask for that on the chromium package's bug tracker.

    If it is indeed, ungoogled, then the package's description should say
    so, shouldn't it? Currently it just says:

    Description: web browser
    Web browser that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable internet
    browsing experience.

    This package contains the web browser component.

    which doesn't hint at it being ungoogled at all.

    That is true, and it is probably not to the extend of ungoogled chromium.
    I have just said that Debian's chromium is already patched
    and the package maintainers would probably welcome integrating patches
    that remove privacy violations.

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