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Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian?

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Hi,

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:03:02PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> now we have extensions disabled in Chromium by default. If I did my
> homeworks correctly, that prevents Chromium from phoning home by
> default, and prevents a previous scenario where extensions could be
> installed but not upgraded, becoming security issues over time.
> 
> Now, suppose I need an extension, what is the proper way to have it in
> Debian, so that it gets upgraded when needed? With that proper way, what
> amount of phoning home is going to happen?
> 
> Since this looks like it's going to be a major issue with stretch, can I
> have some authoritative wiki page / FAQ entry that tells me how I can
> deal with it cleanly, and that I can easily send to confused people?

I wonder if we could just add a boolean debconf question for this.
It could setup /etc/chromium.d/remote-extensions based on the answer
and provide some (dis)advantages info for selecting either option.

-- Sebastian

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What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2017-03-22 12:20 +0100
  Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo@debian.org> - 2017-03-22 12:50 +0100
  Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? "Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)" <jcarter@linux.com> - 2017-03-22 19:40 +0100
    Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2017-03-22 19:50 +0100
      Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2017-03-22 20:20 +0100
    Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2017-03-22 22:00 +0100
      Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> - 2017-03-23 03:50 +0100
        Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2017-03-23 06:40 +0100
  Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.ch> - 2017-03-22 22:30 +0100
    Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2017-03-23 06:30 +0100
      Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2017-03-23 10:00 +0100
  Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org> - 2017-03-23 08:10 +0100
    Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Martin Bagge / brother <brother@bsnet.se> - 2017-03-23 12:10 +0100
      Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> - 2017-03-23 12:20 +0100
        Graphical package installers & debconf (was: What's a safe way to  have extensions in chromium in Debian?) Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2017-03-23 22:10 +0100
          Re: Graphical package installers & debconf (was: What's a safe way to  have extensions in chromium in Debian?) Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net> - 2017-03-23 23:20 +0100
          Re: Graphical package installers & debconf Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2017-03-24 10:00 +0100
      Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org> - 2017-03-23 13:10 +0100
      Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <enrico.weigelt@gr13.net> - 2017-04-08 08:40 +0200
        Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2017-04-09 23:00 +0200
          Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2017-04-10 00:00 +0200
            Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2017-04-10 03:30 +0200
              Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2017-04-10 04:40 +0200
          Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <enrico.weigelt@gr13.net> - 2017-04-11 04:30 +0200
            Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2017-04-11 10:30 +0200
              Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian? "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <enrico.weigelt@gr13.net> - 2017-04-11 16:00 +0200

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