Comment 4 for bug 1045993

From a security POV, this is really a problem. There might be a lot of other packages with security issues in universe, but those are probably not as widely used as chromium, one of the most popular web browsers. I've seen a lot of people assuming that chromium 18 is still fine to use, because it is what Ubuntu currently has in its repository, and that 19/20/21 would only bring new features, so it will be only updated with the quantal release. Most chromium users probably don't even notice they're using a dangerous browser for their online banking etc, even though it says that chromium is not supported by Ubuntu when they install it.

I understand chromium in Ubuntu is 100% community "supported", but it really makes Ubuntu look bad.

I'd prefer one of the following solutions, instead of ignoring the problem:
* If the community that packages chromium security updates does not exist, chromium should be removed from universe.
* If Ubuntu wants to keep chromium in the repos, either move it to main and pay someone to do the packaging work
* or import chromium-browser from debian if that is possible. They seem to do updates timely.