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

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Sonntag, 19. Oktober 2014, 11:30:25 schrieb 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 don´t have an oppinion about this so far.

> > 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.

Wow! Wonderful.

Thank you.

Ciao,
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