13.12.2019

As you might know, Ubuntu starting from 19.10 now ships with Chromium as a snap with no option to install it as a deb package. IMO, snap is still not polished enough to become default, having drawbacks like slow app first startup, integration issues sometimes, etc. I hope some day it will shine, but until then, users have to have a choice.

I get Ubuntu devs arguments: stop wasting too much time to package for different Ubuntu versions with different tools and dependencies — better package once and use this time/resources in more productive ways. But there are other ways of achieving this, rather than going snap-only, like use package from Debian verbatim (you know, like it's done with 99% of packages in Ubuntu).

So that's exactly what we're going to do: use package from Debian.

I know, I know: Ubuntu devs don't recommend to use packages from Debian. Well, you know what, I don't recommend Ubuntu devs to force Calculator that takes 5 seconds to start from SSD on their users. Anyway, we are going to configure apt to never install anything from Debian repos except for Chromium and a couple of dependencies not available in Ubuntu.