[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#881701: chromium: Chromium screenshare does not work - possibly missing compile flag: enable_hangout_services_extension

[Ioan Eugen Stan]

Package: chromium
Version: 62.0.3202.89-1
Severity: important

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I have installed the Chromium package and used it in a hangouts.
Sharing my screen does not work, receiving screen share from other contacts
works.
I have reported this upstream and searched on the internet for a solutin.
It might be a compile option: "enable_hangout_services_extension", as specified
here [2]

I had this issue whith Stretch as well. Google Chrome works.

[1]
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/hangouts/VLG6BPMZLYA/UGi3Sp8OAgAJ
[2]
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/6xpuoa/solved_hangouts_screensharing_not_working_in/





-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-common      62.0.3202.89-1
ii  libasound2           1.1.3-5
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.26.0-2
ii  libavcodec57         7:3.3.4-2+b3
ii  libavformat57        7:3.3.4-2+b3
ii  libavutil55          7:3.3.4-2+b3
ii  libc6                2.24-17
ii  libcairo2            1.15.8-2
ii  libcups2             2.2.6-2
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.12.0-1
ii  libevent-2.1-6       2.1.8-stable-4
ii  libexpat1            2.2.3-2
ii  libflac8             1.3.2-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.12.3-0.2
ii  libfreetype6         2.8.1-0.1
ii  libgcc1              1:7.2.0-14
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.36.11-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.54.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.31-2
ii  libharfbuzz0b        1.6.2-1
ii  libicu57             57.1-8
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.5.2-2
ii  liblcms2-2           2.8-4
ii  libminizip1          1.1-8+b1
ii  libnspr4             2:4.16-1
ii  libnss3              2:3.33-1
ii  libopus0             1.2.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.40.12-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.40.12-1
ii  libpng16-16          1.6.34-1
ii  libpulse0            11.1-1
ii  libre2-3             20170101+dfsg-1
ii  libsnappy1v5         1.1.7-1
ii  libstdc++6           7.2.0-14
ii  libvpx4              1.6.1-3
ii  libwebp6             0.6.0-3
ii  libwebpdemux2        0.6.0-3
ii  libwebpmux3          0.6.0-3
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.4-3
ii  libx11-xcb1          2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcb1              1.12-1
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.14-3
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-3
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.9-1
ii  libxml2              2.9.4+dfsg1-5+b1
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.5.1-1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.29-4
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1+b2
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.3-1
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages chromium recommends:
ii  fonts-liberation  1:1.07.4-5

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

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