On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 07:41:53PM -0600, Don Harper wrote to To General Discussion about Arch Linux: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 07:12:24PM +0000, Mike Cloaked via arch-general wrote to To General Discussion about Arch Linux: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:15 PM Javier via arch-general < > > arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 1/20/21 10:02 AM, Geo Kozey via arch-general wrote: > > > >> ---------------------------------------- > > > >> From: Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >> Sent: Wed Jan 20 02:09:17 CET 2021 > > > >> To: <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >> Cc: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >> Subject: Re: On arch-dev-public: Chromium losing Sync > > > support on March 15 > > > >> The current maintainer of chromium no longer wishes to be the maintainer > > > >> -- without this feature, he does not consider Chromium to be a > > > >> competitive, useful software. Fair enough -- no one is ever by any means > > > >> forced to maintain anything they don't want to. > > > > It would be easier to understand if maintainer explain this themselves. > > > This is second time he stated plans about dropping chromium because > > > upstream removed some api from public use. At first time those plans were > > > aborted after users feedback which showed that removed api isn't crucial > > > for using the app for them and this time it looks similar. > > > > It's ok to stop packaging something that maintainer doesn't like anymore > > > even without waiting for excuse but stopping it only because lost feature > > > that most users can deal without just fine is weird unless maintainer > > > himself relied on it. > > If a chromium user, after the loss of the sync api, would like to > > transition their setup from one computer to another, such as when a new > > arch install has been done on a new computer, is there a mechanism to > > transfer the bookmarks and passwords from one machine to the other if sync > > is not available? Even now if you rsync the config directory then the > > browser does work as it did on the original machine - and getting passwords > > into the new browser on a different machine does not seem to be something > > that is easy unless a clean profile is started, and the old and new browser > > synced by logging in to the same account. Can someone say how that would be > > achieved when sync to the cloud is no longer available? One can always use a non-google sync solution. One I have been using for a bit is https://github.com/marcelklehr/floccus which is cross-browser and self-hosted. > > > > Yours sincerely > > > > G. K. > > > Totally agree with Eli, in that the devs are the ones deciding chromium > > > fate in Arch. > > > BTW, another dev has already mentioned he would adopt it, if dropped by > > > its current maintainer, and keep it without sync if required. So, I guess > > > it's a matter of time now, to see what'll happen. -- Don Harper
