installing chromium does not install chromium-browser-l10n

There is some related discussion on bug 396414

It's easy for me to turn the "Suggests" into a "Depends" but people used to complain about the size of the chromium debs.

15M chromium-browser
552K chromium-browser-inspector
1.4M chromium-browser-l10n
580K chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

Even with thows extra packages it would only be half that of Firefox, some one who realy hates downloading 1.4MB can use a force parameter to install it without the l10n package. Any average user won't know to install the l10n pack and would just think it hasn't been translated.

Recommends would be better (and more appropriate since it's not needed
for english) because then people can still opt out.

On 01/30/2011 11:21 AM, Fabien Tassin wrote:
> It's easy for me to turn the "Suggests" into a "Depends" but people used
> to complain about the size of the chromium debs.
>
> 15M chromium-browser
> 552K chromium-browser-inspector
> 1.4M chromium-browser-l10n
> 580K chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
>

Actually, Chromium is larger than Firefox by a few MBs.

On 02/01/2011 06:16 PM, AJenbo wrote:
> Even with thows extra packages it would only be half that of Firefox,
> some one who realy hates downloading 1.4MB can use a force parameter to
> install it without the l10n package. Any average user won't know to
> install the l10n pack and would just think it hasn't been translated.
>

@Micah Gersten, but then how do you install the l10n on lone en_US systems by default?

Sorry i was looking at the uncompressed size of firefox instead of the compressed.

Recommends would install it on all systems by default (since we install
Recommends by default in Ubuntu), but it doesn't need a depends since
(please correct me if I'm wrong), since it's only needed for Languages
other than English.

On 02/02/2011 01:21 AM, AJenbo wrote:
> @Micah Gersten, but then how do you install the l10n on lone en_US
> systems by default?
>
> Sorry i was looking at the uncompressed size of firefox instead of the
> compressed.
>

This bug was fixed in the package chromium-browser - 9.0.597.107~r75357-0ubuntu1

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chromium-browser (9.0.597.107~r75357-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=high

  * New upstream release from the Stable Channel (LP: #726895)
    This release fixes the following security issues:
    + Webkit bugs:
      - [54262] High, URL bar spoof with history interaction. Credit to Jordi
        Chancel.
      - [68263] High, Stylesheet node stale pointer. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
      - [68741] High, Stale pointer with key frame rule. Credit to Sergey
        Glazunov.
      - [70078] High, Crash with forms controls. Credit to Stefan van Zanden.
      - [70244] High, Crash in SVG rendering. Credit to Sławomir Błażek.
      - [71114] High, Stale node in table child handling. Credit to Martin
        Barbella.
      - [71115] High, Stale pointer in table rendering. Credit to Martin
        Barbella.
      - [71296] High, Stale pointer in SVG animations. Credit to miaubiz.
      - [71386] High, Stale nodes in XHTML. Credit to wushi of team509.
      - [71388] High, Crash in textarea handling. Credit to wushi of team509.
      - [71595] High, Stale pointer in device orientation. Credit to Sergey
        Glazunov.
      - [71855] High, Integer overflow in textarea handling. Credit to miaubiz.
      - [71960] Medium, Out-of-bounds read in WebGL. Credit to Google Chrome
        Security Team (Inferno).
      - [73235] High, Stale pointer in layout. Credit to Martin Barbella.
    + Chromium bugs:
      - [63732] High, Crash with javascript dialogs. Credit to Sergey
        Radchenko.
      - [64-bit only] [70376] Medium, Out-of-bounds read in pickle
        deserialization. Credit to Evgeniy Stepanov of the Chromium development
        community.
      - [71717] Medium, Out-of-bounds read in WebGL. Credit to miaubiz.
      - [72214] High, Accidental exposure of internal extension functions.
        Credit to Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team.
      - [72437] High, Use-after-free with blocked plug-ins. Credit to Chamal de
        Silva.
  * Bump the lang-pack package from Suggests to Recommends (LP: #689267)
    - update debian/control
  * Disable PIE on Armel/Lucid (LP: #716703)
    - update debian/rules
  * Add the disk usage to the Apport hooks
    - update debian/apport/chromium-browser.py
  * Drop gyp from Build-Depends, use in-source gyp instead
    - update debian/control
  * Merge back the ffmpeg codecs (from the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg source package)
    - update debian/rules
    - update debian/control
    - add debian/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra.install
    - add debian/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg.install
 -- Fabien Tassin <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:14:02 +0100

This is now mostly fixed with http://www.piware.de/2012/01/software-center-now-installs-language-support-automatically/ .