[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#748867: Bug#748867: patch: Let's fix this by adding APIKEY

[Michael Gilbert]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Samstag, 18. Oktober 2014, 19:06:33 schrieb Michael Gilbert:
>> control: severity -1 important
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> > At least adding this key fixed my system.  (I have removed old
>> > ~/.chromium directory before adding the API key.  If removal of this is
>> > required for upgrade, please consider adding entry to  debian/NEWS)
>>
>> That patch, of course as simple as it is, looks ok, almost.  Like I
>> said my plan is to put it in a separate chromium-apikeys package.
>>
>> I'll have time to work on that tomorrow.  Those interested can then
>> press ftp masters for a quick review.
>
> Will it be non-free?

That is not my perspective, but someone might be able to make the case for that.

> I think I like this idea… cause some may not want to use Google APIs.
>
> Actually I would also like to see a way to *shut* up Chromium if api keys are
> missing. Actually I didn´t even see any issue using Chromium without API keys…
> so I just placed a file with them there to silence that annoying warning.

I've already written a patch for that, which will be included.

Best wishes,
Mike