State of ungoogled-chromium in Guix

[Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>]

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Hello Guix,

Version 78 of the upstream Chromium project was released yesterday, with
the usual amount of security fixes:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_22.html

Unfortunately the 'ungoogled-chromium' variant in Guix is still stuck on
version 76.  The reason is that we rely on Debians patches, which have
gone stale:

https://salsa.debian.org/chromium-team/chromium

I plan to remove 'ungoogled-chromium' and 'ungoogled-chromium-wayland'
in a few days, unless someone is willing to port the patches.  I can
help extracting just the few changes we need, but do not have time nor
motivation to port them to the newer version myself.

Here is a preliminary patch:


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diff --git a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
index aad1fd9203..21fc3625a6 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages gl)
   #:use-module (gnu packages glib)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gnome)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages gnuzilla)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gperf)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gtk)
   #:use-module (gnu packages icu4c)
@@ -806,7 +807,8 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE."
 
     ;; Building Chromium takes ... a very long time.  On a single core, a busy
     ;; mid-end x86 system may need more than 24 hours to complete the build.
-    (properties '((timeout . 144000)))  ;40 hours
+    (properties '((timeout . 144000)    ;40 hours
+                  (hidden? . #t)))
 
     (home-page "https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium")
     (description
@@ -852,3 +854,9 @@ disabled in order to protect the users privacy.")
                                       (assoc-ref %build-inputs "wayland")
                                       "/bin/wayland-scanner\""))
                  (delete "use_vaapi=true" ,flags)))))))
+
+(define-public ungoogled-chromium-is-deprecated
+  (deprecated-package "ungoogled-chromium" icecat))
+
+(define-public ungoogled-chromium-wayland-is-deprecated
+  (deprecated-package "ungoogled-chromium-wayland" icecat))

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Thoughts?

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