Apparently Google uses a single standard updated URL for the latest Debian version (beta, stable, unstable): https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-beta_current_amd64.deb https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb
One could 'SKIP' the SHA check and do a blind build with version update like so:
source=("https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-${_channel}_current_amd64.deb"
pkgver() {
tar -xf control.tar.xz './control' --to-command="grep -Pio '(?<=Version: )[\d\.]+'"
}
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gromit commented on 2023-11-30 17:09 (UTC)
When reporting this package as outdated make sure there is indeed a new version for Linux Desktop. You can have a look at the "Beta updates" tag in Release blog for this.
You can also run this command to obtain the version string for the latest chrome beta version:
Do not report updates for ChromeOS, Android or other platforms stable versions as updates here.