[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#783999: Should not disable "safe browsing" mechanism

[Josh Triplett]

Package: chromium
Version: 42.0.2311.135-1
Severity: important

>From the changelog:

  [ Shawn Landden ]
    * Supress first run welcome page.
    * Turn off safebrowsing.
    * Turn off pinging Google on 404 and other HTTP errors.

Judging by the changes it was grouped with, I'm guessing that this
change was made for privacy reasons.  However, to the best of my
knowledge, the mechanism used to implement safe browsing does *not*
check individual URLs against a server (at Google or elsewhere);
instead, it downloads a filter and checks URLs against that.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  libasound2           1.0.28-1
ii  libc6                2.19-18
ii  libcairo2            1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcap2              1:2.24-8
ii  libcups2             1.7.5-11
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.16-1
ii  libexpat1            2.1.0-6+b3
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.42.1-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.25-3
ii  libharfbuzz0b        0.9.35-2
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.3.1-12
ii  libnspr4             2:4.10.8-1
ii  libnspr4-0d          2:4.10.8-1
ii  libnss3              2:3.17.2-1.1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.8-3
ii  libpci3              1:3.2.1-3
ii  libspeechd2          0.8-7
ii  libspeex1            1.2~rc1.2-1
ii  libsrtp0             1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1
ii  libstdc++6           4.9.2-10
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.4-1+b2
ii  libxml2              2.9.2+dfsg1-3
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.4.2-1+b1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.28-2+b2
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  x11-utils            7.7+2
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>

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