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Reported by: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 20:00:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #92 received at 28004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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Marius Bakke transcribed 2.3K bytes:
> ng0 <ng0 <at> n0.is> writes:
>
> > Marius Bakke transcribed 39K bytes:
> >
> >> Testing and feedback welcome!
> >>
> >> Currently there are two "important" (blocking?) TODOs left:
> >>
> >> * Move the 'delete-bundled-software' phase to a source snippet.
> >> Repacking the ~500MiB compressed tarball is *really* expensive. It
> >> should also aid the licensing situation.
> >> * Delete the two default entries from the "most used" list on the New
> >> Tab page. The first run will download thumbnails for these sites,
> >> leaking data. One of them also leads to the disabled-by-default
> >> store, promoting non-free software.
> >>
> >> I'm optimistic that fixing the second item will make the browser not
> >> leak *any* data at launch with the default configuration. Which leads
> >> to a third item: writing a system test that verifies that launching
> >> Chromium does indeed not initiate any network traffic.
> >>
> >> Anyway, here is the latest patch:
> >>
> >
> >> From f813b2d7ec0728a906720fa74bf9f442af6ab10d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
> >> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:25:05 +0100
> >> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add chromium.
> >>
> >> * gnu/packages/chromium.scm: New file.
> >> * gnu/local.mk: Record it.
> >
> > I think you forgot a package:
> >
> > gnu/packages/chromium.scm:664:5: icu4c-59.1: unbound variable
>
> Indeed. This can now be changed to use the regular "icu4c" package.
Okay, will change. Thanks!
> Tangentially, these kinds of problems are typical with new Chromium
> releases. In 63 or later, system harfbuzz had to be disabled. If we
> are going to carry this package, changes like these *will* be normal.
>
> Upstream only tests their releases with Clang, and with the bundled
> versions of packages, regardless of the unbundling script. Not great.
Yeah. I've been there, and read the frustration of other packagers
when I worked on getting a basic skeleton of chromium + dependencies
ready one(?) year ago.
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