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This is being brought back.

I updated the info in the user guide. After testing it turns out chromium-bsu entries need to be defined before chromium ones. I also added warnings.

I'm going to add a warning also, whether it's pinning or PPAs, to make a snapshot beforehand.

We'll make a team to maintain this, I talked to Xenopeek, I'd like the dev and forums teams to work together on it. The tie to github in the backend also allows the community to participate by creating issues and/or pull requests.

I had to point to something that could be updated (from rel_notes, packages etc..) and that was pertinent, easy to read, and not maintained by just me. We've also needed a place to document quite a lot of things which didn't fit in the previous guides... so now is as good as ever to start writing co...

hmm... I'd want to test that before saying for sure Pinning has to be done right, timeshift, test, test, test

Careful, a few things here... The pinning info for bionic is wrong, you can't just set priority 1 for ubuntu repos... that's dangerous. You can do it for Debian, but if you want to do it for Ubuntu you have to specify to only do it for Bionic. There is no "recommended" way from Mint. We'll update th...

@smurphos thanks for doing this. Just a quick note. You mentioned using Buster with pinning as an alternative, how about Bionic? It still received updates for Chromium until 2021 afaik. Thanks Clem. I've added a Bionic option. Do I recall correctly that when Canonical announced this direction of tr...

@smurphos thanks for doing this.

Just a quick note. You mentioned using Buster with pinning as an alternative, how about Bionic? It still received updates for Chromium until 2021 afaik.

Fixed in 6.0.3.1 and 5.9.1.2.