Hi Andreas. You might want to file a bug on Firefox for this. Wouldn't it be easy to suggest to them to have the old package have a dependency to plain Firefox for those packages?
Or at least get an explanation if it is correct way. But I think it's just an oversight from them. /Jackson fre 2019-03-22 klockan 09:49 +0100 skrev Andreas Heinlein: > Am 21.03.19 um 18:40 schrieb Thomas Lange: > > Hi Andreas, > > > > I wonder why you get this error, because apt-get says it does not > > even > > know this package. If I like to remove a package that's in the > > database I get this output > > > > veedel[~]# apt-get purge moon-buggy > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > Package 'moon-buggy' is not installed, so not removed > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded. > > > > Maybe you may have removed some sources.list entries, so apt-get > > complains about unknown packages. > > Hello, > > your are right, the root of the problem is that these packages have > been > removed completely from debian stable. These are XUL style firefox > extensions which are not supported in recent firefox versions > anymore. > So the debian maintainers obviously decided, instead of providing a > dummy transitional package, to completely remove them. I have never > before seen a package being removed from stable... So now it looks > like > they never existed, even though machines installed earlier still have > them installed. > > But this is, hopefully, a special case that will not happen again, so > I > will solve this by using a script instead. This is not a bug in FAI. > > Thank you for your help. > > Andreas > -- Anders Jackson, universitetsadjunkt i datavetenskap, Högskolan i Gävle Tel: 026 648764 | Fax: 026 648758 | Webb: http://www.hig.se/ Rum: 99:533 | Högskolan i Gävle, ATM-akademin, SE-801 76 GÄVLE
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