Package: chromium
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I see that nobody complained about this bug [1]
This problem is somehow well-known these days in the Internet, look for "allow
chromium sign-in" in a web search engine.
After an upgrade (I don't remember exactly what version) chromium did an
opt-in that says:
By turning this off, you can sign in to Google sites like Gmail without
signing in to Chromium
I think that debian policy does not allow to opt-in data transmission (google
account synchronization) without warning and without user consent. At least,
this does not look to be very fair.
Sorry for not providing any solution, at least I participated warning
about the issue
Cheers,
Pedeb
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=chromium;dist=unstable
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii libasound2 1.1.3-5
pn libatk1.0-0
pn libatomic1
pn libavcodec57 | libavcodec-extra57
pn libavformat57
pn libavutil55
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3
pn libcairo2
pn libcups2
ii libdbus-1-31.10.26-0+deb9u1
pn libdrm2
ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-3
ii libexpat1 2.2.0-2+deb9u1
pn libflac8
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3.2
ii libgcc11:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
pn libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2
pn libgtk2.0-0
ii libicu57 57.1-6+deb9u2
ii libjpeg62-turbo1:1.5.1-2
pn libminizip1
pn libnspr4
pn libnss3
pn libopenjp2-7
pn libopus0
pn libpango-1.0-0
pn libpangocairo-1.0-0
pn libpangoft2-1.0-0
ii libpci31:3.5.2-1
ii libpng16-161.6.28-1
pn libpulse0
pn libre2-3
pn libsnappy1v5
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1
pn libvpx4
ii libwebp6 0.5.2-1
pn libwebpdemux2
pn libwebpmux2
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1
pn libx11-xcb1
ii libxcb11.12-1
pn libxcomposite1
pn libxcursor1
pn libxdamage1
pn libxext6
pn libxfixes3
pn libxi6
ii libxml22.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u2
pn libxrandr2
pn libxrender1
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.29-2.1
pn libxss1
pn libxtst6
pn x11-utils
pn xdg-utils
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
Versions of packages chromium recommends:
pn fonts-liberation
pn libgl1-mesa-dri
Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn chromium-driver
pn chromium-l10n
pn chromium-shell
pn chromium-widevine