Thanks Robie for the suggestion. I hadn't thought of an epoch bump, but it sounds like a good solution to the recurring problem at hand.
This is the ubuntu-devel@ discussion for reference: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2020-August/041127.html. I am going to test the package in focal-proposed and validate this SRU, and I will then add the epoch in groovy and SRU it to 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/1889106 Title: [SRU] Upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 will keep the 18.04 chromium- browser due to a higher version than the transitional deb in 20.04 Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in chromium-browser source package in Focal: Fix Committed Bug description: This bug is another manifestation of bug #1858500, but with a different upgrade path. bionic-{security,updates} will soon have chromium-browser 84.0.4147.89-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 (pending sponsoring by the security team), and when that happens the version number in focal will be lower, meaning that chromium-browser won't be updated to the new package that installs the snap for a user upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04. Since chromium-browser in 20.04 is a mostly empty transitional package that installs the chromium snap, all that's needed to fix this is to bump its version number. [Impact] Users upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 will not get the latest chromium snap replacing the chromium-browser deb package as intended. This is because the version number in 18.04 is (will soon be) greater than the version in 20.04. Bumping the version number in 20.04 is enough to fix this. [Test Case] * Ensure that chromium-browser 84.0.4147.89-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 is available in bionic-{security,updates} * 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1889106/+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