Make chromium awesomer
chromium-browser is becoming popular, and is an essential part of Ubuntu desktop for use in web-apps. We should give it more attention.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Started
- Approver:
- Jason Warner
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Chad Miller
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Chad Miller
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Proposed for raring
- Implementation:
-
Started
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Chad Miller
- Completed by
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
source compression should be xz (supported in lucid and later)
binary compression should be bzip2 for lucid and xz for oneiric and later (xz binary compression requires a Pre-Depends on dpkg >= 1.15.6~)
Debian moved to binary package name "chromium". Should we follow? Consensus on #ubuntu-desktop was "no."
We should drop the revision number in the package version. It's unnecessary, as all release versions map to exactly one revision.
Work Items
Work items:
[cmiller] get stable ppa building daily: INPROGRESS
[cmiller] get beta ppa building daily: TODO
[cmiller] get dev ppa building daily: TODO
[cmiller] review current patchs in packaging. annotate with owner and history and rationale. DEP3 format and require bug numbers: DONE
[cmiller] abandon tarball-in-tarball orig sources: DONE
[cmiller] pick best orig-tarball compression scheme. Consider dpkg support and compression: DONE
[cmiller] no longer merge translations directly from launchpad: DONE
[cmiller] get translation templates automatically imported to launchpad: TODO
[cmiller] get upstream to accept launchpad translations into main tree. automate?: TODO
[cmiller] take ideas from Debian packaging and see how much we should push back down. Unify and use ifdefs?: TODO
[cmiller] online-
[cmiller] package web driver from chromium source, Bug#1069930 : DONE
