Chromium not installable on Testing

[Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>]

So a few weeks ago Chromium came uninstalled and couldn't be reinstalled.

When I tried to install it I got this:



root@rocket:/data/vids# apt-get install chromium
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 chromium : Depends: libudev0 (>= 146) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.



A bit of investigation found that libudev0 is also not available in
unstable. I figured this would be fixed quickly and was part of the natural
growing pains of the Testing distro ... but it has been a while and hasn't
changed.

Before I file a bug, I thought I'd ask if my problem was universal, or
specific to something about my system.

Also, why does Chromium need udev? To detect webcams and microphones?

Thanks.
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Carl Fink                           carlf@li-con.org
Chair, LI-CON, March 29-30, 2014, Rockville Centre, NY
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