State of ungoogled-chromium in Guix

State of ungoogled-chromium in Guix

[Marius Bakke]

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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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Re: State of ungoogled-chromium in Guix

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

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Marius,

Marius Bakke 写道:
> I plan to remove 'ungoogled-chromium' and 
> 'ungoogled-chromium-wayland'
> in a few days

This is good.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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Re: State of ungoogled-chromium in Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> 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.

Sounds reasonable to me.

If/when someone wants to work on the upgrade, or if the Debian Chromium
team picks it up, we can always reinstate it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: State of ungoogled-chromium in Guix

[Marius Bakke]

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
>
>> 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.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me.
>
> If/when someone wants to work on the upgrade, or if the Debian Chromium
> team picks it up, we can always reinstate it.

It is done:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=22c313eff8500cb7d8a370a6eaed95a5540af323

I intend to remove it completely in ~two months unless the situation
changes by then.

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Re: State of ungoogled-chromium in Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Marius,

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Sounds reasonable to me.
>>
>> If/when someone wants to work on the upgrade, or if the Debian Chromium
>> team picks it up, we can always reinstate it.
>
> It is done:
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=22c313eff8500cb7d8a370a6eaed95a5540af323
>
> I intend to remove it completely in ~two months unless the situation
> changes by then.

I wonder if we should add an entry in etc/news.scm about this?

Ludo’.

Re: State of ungoogled-chromium in Guix

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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On 2019-10-23, Marius Bakke wrote:
> 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

78.0.x was uploaded to Debian yesterday, FWIW:

  https://tracker.debian.org/news/1078440/accepted-chromium-780390497-1-source-into-unstable/

live well,
  vagrant

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Re: State of ungoogled-chromium in Guix

[Marius Bakke]

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Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:

> On 2019-10-23, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> 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
>
> 78.0.x was uploaded to Debian yesterday, FWIW:
>
>   https://tracker.debian.org/news/1078440/accepted-chromium-780390497-1-source-into-unstable/

Thanks for the heads-up.  I don't have time to proceed with the upgrade
right now, but will get on it 'eventually'.  Help welcome :-)

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