Call for testing: chromium-browser deb to snap transition

[quote="zippyzebu, post:2, topic:11772] Well 32bit snap version is crashing for me. [/quote]

Can you provide details about that crash? Which version of Ubuntu, which channel of the chromium snap, what desktop environment, does it crash right away at startup or are there a specific set of actions/pages that trigger the crash?

[quote="zippyzebu, post:2, topic:11772] But why deb is being replaced with snap in the main archive ? I use Pop_os/Ubuntu-Mate and it doesn’t even have snap. How do I continue using/testing chromium deb ? Can you provide a PPA ? [/quote]

Technically, chromium is in universe, not in main (see this documentation). The deb packages won’t disappear, but they are becoming transitional packages that install the snap when installing/upgrading.

I’m not sure about Pop!_OS, but I’m pretty sure Ubuntu Mate supports snaps as first-class citizens.

Once the transition is complete there won’t be a PPA maintained by the Ubuntu desktop team, because one of the goals of this transition is to relieve some of the packaging/maintenance work.