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12 October 2014

Giuseppe Iuculano: apt-get purge chromium

As you may know, I was the Debian chromium maintainer for many years. Some week ago, I decided to stop working in the chromium package because it is not possible anymore to contribute and work in the team. In fact, Michael Gilbert started to work in a manner that prevent people to help maintain the package. In the last period the git repository rarely was updated, and my requests were systematically ignored. Having an updated git repository is mandatory in a big package like Chromium, and if you don t push your changes, other people will lost their time Now, after deciding to stop maintaining Chromium, I also decided to purge it and switch to the Google Chrome binary. Why? Chromium is a pain. Huge commits not documented in changelog that caused stupid bugs because no one can double check them. In this moment we have an unusable [1] [2] [3] version of Chromium in testing because maintainer demoted grave bugs with the recommendation to rm -rf ./config/chromium and nobody can understand the sense of latest commits. flattr this!

26 February 2011

Rog rio Brito: My problems with Chromium

Given that Chromium/Chrome is used more and more (as became apparent with the discussion of including it in Debian's squeeze), I decided to give it some tries, mainly Giuseppe Iuculano's version. I occasionally install Chromium from Fabien Tassin's daily builds. And, to be honest, I have also contributed a good amount (about 400) of translated strings to the Brazilian Portuguese part of Chromium. As a matter of fact, I have even done some "activism" and incentivated other people to create their accounts on Launchpad and help with the projects. But I always come back to Iceweasel/Firefox, especially with Mike Hommey's frequently updated repository. What are my reasons for staying with Iceweasel, and not with Chromium? I would be satisfied if any of the above were fixed or better documented, but it seems that some of those are, at best, going to wait a long time.

1 November 2010

Raphaël Hertzog: 5 free software to support with Flattr

Flattr FOSS LogoIt s already the fourth issue of Flattr FOSS: it means 20 different projects using Flattr that I presented you. Here are the 5 suggestions for November:
  1. Redshift is a small utility that adjusts the color temperature of your screen to make it less aggressive on your eyes, in particular during evening/nights. It uses the time of the day and the geographic location to know whether it s night or day. I discovered it this summer and I liked it, although I m not running it permanently.
  2. Noscript is a Firefox plugin to control what sites can execute javascript, flash and other plugins. All those are creating supplementary security risks and you browse safer if you allow only some sites to run them. This is the number one entry on Flattr in the opensource category, it recently took the place of dpkg.
  3. phyMyAdmin is a web interface to manage MySQL databases. If you have such a database on a web-hosting service, you have likely already seen it in action. It s an award-winning software with a 12 year history, it s not so common for PHP applications. :-)
  4. Chromium maintenance in Debian. Chromium is a rapidly-evolving & complex software and Giuseppe Iuculano has been tirelessly working on packaging it. Almost alone within Debian. He deserves kudos for his work even though he reused work made by Fabien Tassin on the Ubuntu package.
  5. Dulwich is a pure-Python implementation of the Git file formats and protocols. It s an important building block for interoperability between Bazaar and Git: bzr-git (a Bazaar plugin providing Git integration) is notably using it. Given the large usage of bzr in Ubuntu and the popularity of Git world-wide, it s important to have such gateways.
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Update: mentioned the work of Fabien Tassin on the chromium package within Ubuntu.

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8 September 2010

Giuseppe Iuculano: chromium-browser removed from testing

Ok, this happened, chromium-browser was removed from testing and will not be included in Debian squeeze. Some days ago (before the hard freeze) I contacted the release team and asked about a possible inclusion of Chromium 6 in squeeze. The main reason of this request is that in April there was at least one major refactoring of the SVG code (webkit). The internal webkit copy is too outdated in chromium 5, and backporting any future SVG security patches (and unfortunately the story says they are frequent) is very hard. I got no answer, and after one week of silence and the hard freeze announcement, I realized that chromium 5 is not supportable and decided to upload chromium 6 in unstable (It was already in experimental). I asked the Release Team to unblock chromium-browser 6.0.472.53~r57914-3 or remove chromium-browser 5.0.375.127~r55887-1 from testing. Well, after one hour they removed chromium-browser from testing. I failed, my efforts to get chromium in Squeeze were in vain. Debian failed, a modern and much appreciated web browser will not be included in our next stable release. Related posts:
  1. Why would you prefer chromium-browser in sid over google-chrome
  2. Chromium ready for unstable

19 July 2010

Giuseppe Iuculano: Why would you prefer chromium-browser in sid over google-chrome

I ve seen a lot of Debian user asking: What is the difference between chromium-browser in sid and google-chrome (stable)? , Does chromium-browser support html5, h264, vp8? Why would I prefer chromium-browser in sid over google-chrome (stable)? BTW, the next step is to get chromium-browser into testing and upload a dev version (6.x) in experimental. Related posts:
  1. Chromium ready for unstable

10 May 2010

Giuseppe Iuculano: Chromium ready for unstable

I m currently testing the new chromium version for unstable. I tried to remove embedded code copies, and I m pleased with the result. Ubuntu i386 binary: -rwxr-xr-x root/root 35804728 2010-05-05 12:01 ./usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser Debian i386 binary: -rwxr-xr-x root/root 20693336 2010-05-09 21:33 ./usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser The latest blocker for an upload in unstable is a minor bug in libv8, but Antonio Radici should upload a [...] No related posts.

Giuseppe Iuculano: Chromium ready for unstable

I m currently testing the new chromium version for unstable. I tried to remove embedded code copies, and I m pleased with the result. Ubuntu i386 binary: -rwxr-xr-x root/root 35804728 2010-05-05 12:01 ./usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
Debian i386 binary: -rwxr-xr-x root/root 20693336 2010-05-09 21:33 ./usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser The latest blocker for an upload in unstable is a minor bug in libv8, but Antonio Radici should upload a fixed version this evening :) No related posts.

3 December 2009

Debian News: New Security Team member and new Security Team assistant

It is our pleasure to announce that Giuseppe Iuculano is now a full member of the Security Team.

Also, Raphael Geissert has been added as an assistant to the Security Team.

Moritz M hlenhoff, on behalf of the Security Team