Comments on: Notes on the Google Chrome™ Debian package

By: Leo Antunes

Leo Antunes — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:48:14 +0000

I’m not familiar with Iceweasel’s packaging to pitch in, but my answer to the comment above still stays: I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing. Certainly easier than expecting people to download a series of debs and manually install them in the right sequence.

The point – which I should have made clearer – is simply that this work could have been invested in doing it the right way. And by “right way” I mean preserving the idea of distributions as integrators, and as such, empowering them to integrate your software for you. Going against this simply because you are the 500 pound elephant in the room could potentially weaken the same distributions they’re aiming at supporting.

By: mones

mones — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:21:42 +0000

Where are all those hired DDs? :)
Maybe they forgot to apt-get install lintian (and run it on the debs!)

By: Raphael Geissert

Raphael Geissert — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:50:16 +0000

IIRC the google search desktop Debian package also has a cronjob that looks for updates and installs them if it finds any. Ugly.

By: bubo

bubo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:36:37 +0000

i’ve never understood why someone wants to open the debian keyring for third party binaries…i like chrome a lot. the v8 javascript engine is amazing. i download the latest snapshot here

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux/

then put it in ~/bin – e basta!

do i deserve a broken keyring? only id i’m stupid! do i deserve, that somebody messes with my box? only if she is a debian ftp-master ;)!

By: gebi

gebi — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:51:20 +0000

iceweasel package is also happly linking to libs statically…
e.g libtheora

% strings /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so |grep -i libtheora
Xiph.Org libTheora I 20081020 3 2 1
% ldd /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so |grep -i libTheora
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