Seems Debian is dropping chromium package too!

If I understand that right, Debian maintainers are tired of constantly having to update chromium for security issues, so are thinking of just removing it from Debian repos, and suggesting people use the flatpak version!  Crazy stuff! 

While testing debian bullseye/BL6 legacy I had noticed that the chromium package in stable was fairly old (version 90) and even in testing was only up to 93, but being fairly new to Debian wasn't sure why.  I had already figured out that the Firefox in stable was "ESR", an extended service release version, and if you wanted the latest from Mozilla you either installed their version manually, or get it from Debian's testing repo, but the same thing didn't seem to apply to chromium. 

For those who don't follow all the chromium browser details, Ubuntu themselves doesn't offer deb package starting with 20.04LTS, and recommending ppl use the snap package.  In fact not just recommending it, but force installing snapd and the snap version of chromium, even when user tries to install chromium-browser package with apt from command line.  I find it highly crazy unlikely Debian would consider force installing flatpak support via apt tho, it'll just say unable to locate package like anything elsee.  But at least ubuntu is still updating and packaging it for 18.04LTS thru April 2023; it sounds like Debian's just going to remove it from testing, and stop updating stable/oldstable.  Not quite sure, as this is just message in a bug report, not an official announcement....

Anyway I guess another good reason Linux Mint is still building and packaging chromium.  But I don't think they're doing it for 32-bit, so come 2023, perhaps 32-bit users won't have simple chromium source available.