Please disable gconf in chromium-browser

[Jeremy Bícha]

gconf has been deprecated for years and I'd like to remove it from my computer. (It's not used by Unity or unity-settings-daemon or core GNOME at all.)

Ubuntu's debian/rules has use_gconf=true but Debian has use_gconf=false. Please follow Debian here.

I see that the apport script also tries to use gconf so that should be dropped too.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package chromium-browser - 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172

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chromium-browser (58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Upstream release: 58.0.3029.81
    - CVE-2017-5057: Type confusion in PDFium.
    - CVE-2017-5058: Heap use after free in Print Preview.
    - CVE-2017-5059: Type confusion in Blink.
    - CVE-2017-5060: URL spoofing in Omnibox.
    - CVE-2017-5061: URL spoofing in Omnibox.
    - CVE-2017-5062: Use after free in Chrome Apps.
    - CVE-2017-5063: Heap overflow in Skia.
    - CVE-2017-5064: Use after free in Blink.
    - CVE-2017-5065: Incorrect UI in Blink.
    - CVE-2017-5066: Incorrect signature handing in Networking.
    - CVE-2017-5067: URL spoofing in Omnibox.
    - CVE-2017-5069: Cross-origin bypass in Blink.
  * debian/patches/arm.patch: removed, no longer needed
  * debian/patches/gtk-ui-stdmove: removed, no longer needed (upstreamed)
  * debian/patches/screen_capturer: removed, no longer needed (upstreamed)
  * debian/patches/default-allocator: refreshed
  * debian/patches/disable-sse2: refreshed
  * debian/patches/enable-chromecast-by-default: refreshed
  * debian/patches/fix_building_widevinecdm_with_chromium.patch: refreshed
  * debian/patches/search-credit.patch: refreshed
  * debian/patches/snapshot-library-link: refreshed
  * debian/patches/title-bar-default-system.patch-v35: refreshed
  * debian/patches/fix-gn-bootstrap.patch: added
  * debian/rules: disable the use of Vulcanize, the required node.js modules
    are not readily available

 -- Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:56:01 +0200

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

chromium-browser still depends on libgconf-2-4. I think you should drop the Build-Depends: libgconf2-dev and set use_gconf=false in debian/rules. Also, the apport script shouldn't try to use gconf either.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package chromium-browser - 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.17.04.1360

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chromium-browser (59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.17.04.1360) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Upstream release: 59.0.3071.109

 -- Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Jun 2017 06:37:28 +0200