[Pkg-chromium-maint] Comments regarding chromium-browser_38.0.2125.101-4_i386.changes

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Hi,

Michael Gilbert <mgilbert at debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Ansgar Burchardt
> <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> why is an extra binary package for a 292 byte file needed?
>
> To make API keys an optional selection for users.  See LWN article [0]
> for a reasonable discussion.
>
> [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/570485/

I didn't get to read that yet, but

a, are there any obligations on Debian by distributing these keys?
b, why can't users just rm /etc/chromium.d/chromium-apikeys.conf if they
   do not want the keys?

Ansgar