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spot

Note on chromium packages

Feb 26, 2010 20:40

I know there have been a lot of questions about where the chromium packages went, so I've been cleared to make the following statement:
We have discontinued distribution of the Courgette package after having learned of allegations of patent infringement relating to the package, including a patent lawsuit ( Read more... )

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Fedora 13+ ? louise_hoffman February 27 2010, 02:06:31 UTC

Does that mean, that Red Hat can ship Chromium for Fedora 13+ ?

Re: Fedora 13+ ? spot February 27 2010, 02:09:13 UTC

No... because my packages live on fedorapeople.org, which is owned by Red Hat, Red Hat was considered the "distributor" of those packages.

They still have the same problems I outlined before which preclude them from going into Fedora.

Re: Fedora 13+ ? louise_hoffman February 27 2010, 02:13:45 UTC

Okay, thanks for clearing that out.

Let's hope Google can sort the patent problems out, so it can be distributed with Fedora =)

Figure out? adamwill February 27 2010, 02:28:09 UTC

Maybe I'm missing something here, but:

"A) Figure out some way to make a libicu42 package for chromium to use and link against but which won't conflict with the Fedora system libicu"

seems odd. What's to 'figure out'? If it's a different major, there's no reason it should conflict with the existing libicu. Package it under a different name - libicu42, or whatever - and boom, no problem.

If it's not a different major yet is API incompatible with version 4.0, that's clearly a bug on upstream's part and should be fixed, surely.

What am I missing?

Re: Figure out? spot February 27 2010, 02:34:39 UTC

Well, keeping in mind that I haven't had any time to investigate seriously, at least the -devel packages will conflict.

Re: Figure out? adamwill February 27 2010, 06:27:04 UTC

That's not really a problem, in fact. There's no particular reason you'd ever need to have both installed. I figure it's a perfectly reasonable approach to just have an explicit Conflicts: in the spec

If you want to avoid this, you can use a versioned sub-directory in /usr/include for the headers, and stick a version in before the . in the library filename...but I don't really see the point...especially for a side repo. Just have the -devel packages conflict...

backspace issue ? anonymous February 27 2010, 07:41:04 UTC

First, thanks for you new package.

With the new chromium-5.0.330.0-0.1.20100218svn39394.fc12.i686 package, I'm not able anymore to use the "backspace" key to go to the previous page in browsing history.
Others shortcuts works perfectly. And as I'm using it on netbook (Aspire One) in fullscreen,
it very annoying...

What about you ?

Re: backspace issue ? evan February 27 2010, 12:00:48 UTC

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=30699

please read the comments carefully before (not) leaving your own

mrlachatte February 27 2010, 18:51:41 UTC

I'm getting a dependency problem - courgette requires chromium-libs 4.0.305.0-0.1.20100122svn36865.fc12, but chromium-libs wants to update.

mrlachatte March 1 2010, 01:50:02 UTC

yum remove courgette

anonymous February 28 2010, 15:05:23 UTC

Hi tom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't want to talk about google, i only wanted to pop in to say hello to you!!!!!!!!!!!!! And to say that you're doing a great work!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for the update of nautilus beesu too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~bee!!!!!!!!!!!