[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#1102005: Workaround works

[Markus Koschany]

On Thu, 1 May 2025 20:48:53 -0700 Craig <craig.langman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I confirm this workaround works...
> 
> This package should be removed from trixie since it doesn't work without
> workarounds.  As mentioned, these workarounds are only temporary anyway and
> will likely be irrelevant by release time.

I think it makes more sense to keep webext-ublock-origin-chromium because a
sensible workaround exists for now. Also there might be an effort to port
ublock-origin to newer Chromium versions in a few months and then we could just
upgrade it in stable via a point release. It would be more of a hassle if we
had to re-introduce the binary package then again.

 
> > I'm not sure there is a way to replace ublock-origin, given that manifest
> v2 is going away...
> 
> The alternative for chromium is ublock-origin-lite however it's too late to
> get new packages into trixie as far as I know.

That's correct. I have to look into ublock-origin-lite and if we want to bundle
the sources with the normal ublock-origin or switch to it entirely or create a
separate source package for it. That's something for the next release cycle.

> 
> > Perhaps we need to have brave browser in Debian as an alternative?
> 
> Debian already offers an alternative browser, it's called Firefox, and
> there is already webext-ublock-origin-firefox working fine.

Right. webext-ublock-origin-firefox works fine and Firefox isn't a bad
alternative either.

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