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Package: mozilla-firefox
Version: 1.0.3-1
Severity: normal
The basic problem is that the typical user finds he needs to install
extra plugins, but these are not intrinsically tied in debian to the
browser package. So either he installs them from sources he finds on
the internet (bad, compared to having a debian package to provide the
plugin) or (only if he is an experienced user) he spends time finding
the right package to provide the plugin within debian.
Particularly at issue are flash and java plugins. There is a solid
flash plugin in debian (swf-player) as well as a not-so-solid flash
plugin (libflash-mozplugin crashed my browser repeatedly) [or maybe I
have these backwards]. With java the problem is worse as Debian can't doesn't
include any java plugins that I can see.
Now, I can't tell you the best way to fix this.
For the flash (and most other) plugins, the best choice would be to add
a "recommends" entry to the package to recommend installation of the
preferred plugin. Again, the problem is worse for java (and other
proprietary) plugins as there's no good way to provide the plugin within
the debian framework.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages mozilla-firefox depends on:
ii debianutils 2.13.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkrb53 1.3.6-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-12 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System printing extension
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii psmisc 21.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
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Hi,
Lior Kaplan asked me to review this bug. Indeed it's not a relevant wish
anymore and I'm closing it now.
Thijs
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