On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM Carles Pina i Estany <[email protected]> wrote: > I see that the package gnome-browser-connector (version 42.1-6) suggests > chromium-browser which is not in unstable. > > This can be seen in > https://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome-browser-connector . Search > for "Package not available". > > The missing package used to be in Debian but they were removed some time > ago: > > - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium-browser > > Should it be dropped or changed? I think that should be just "chromium" > nowadays.
Ubuntu never renamed chromium-browser to chromium. The gnome-browser-connector packaging is shared between Debian and Ubuntu. Specifically, debian/control has Suggests: chromium | chromium-browser, firefox Enhances: chromium, chromium-browser, firefox The first alternative package for Depends and Recommends needs to be in Debian main according to Debian Policy § 2.2.1, but this doesn't apply to Suggests. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-main-archive-area However, I did update Ubuntu's chromium-browser packaging last year to add Provides: chromium, so I guess I might as well simplify the packaging as you suggested now. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
