Bug#1118131: gnome-browser-connector: suggests chromium-browser which is not in unstable

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM Carles Pina i Estany <carles at pina.cat> wrote:
> I see that the package gnome-browser-connector (version 42.1-6) suggests
> chromium-browser which is not in unstable.
>
> This can be seen in
> https://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome-browser-connector . Search
> for "Package not available".
>
> The missing package used to be in Debian but they were removed some time
> ago:
>
> - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium-browser
>
> Should it be dropped or changed? I think that should be just "chromium"
> nowadays.

Ubuntu never renamed chromium-browser to chromium. The
gnome-browser-connector packaging is shared between Debian and Ubuntu.
Specifically, debian/control has

Suggests: chromium | chromium-browser, firefox
Enhances: chromium, chromium-browser, firefox

The first alternative package for Depends and Recommends needs to be
in Debian main according to Debian Policy § 2.2.1, but this doesn't
apply to Suggests.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-main-archive-area

However, I did update Ubuntu's chromium-browser packaging last year to
add Provides: chromium, so I guess I might as well simplify the
packaging as you suggested now.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha