wslu includes wslview which has a feature of being a "fake web browser that allows opening urls in your default browser on Windows 10". Therefore, Provides: www-browser is not a bug.
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/wslview -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2060898 Title: Trying to install gimp-help-en threatens to install wslu Status in kubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ubuntu-budgie-meta package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ubuntu-mate-meta package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in wslu package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in kubuntu-meta source package in Noble: Triaged Status in lubuntu-meta source package in Noble: Triaged Status in ubuntu-budgie-meta source package in Noble: Triaged Status in ubuntu-mate-meta source package in Noble: Triaged Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Noble: Invalid Status in wslu source package in Noble: Invalid Bug description: Filing this against ubuntu-meta since I believe this is a seed problem that potentially affects all variants of Ubuntu (flavors or otherwise). wslu is "a collection of utilities for the Windows 10 Linux Subsystem, such as for converting Linux paths to a Windows paths or creating Linux application shortcuts on the Windows 10 Desktop." Obviously this package should *never* be installed on a desktop or even on most VMs, but only within WSL instances. However... wslu provides the virtual package www-browser, as one of its features is to open links in Windows 10 using the default browser set there. This means that if a package depends or recommends www-browser, it may attempt to pull in one of several packages, wslu included. In the past, this hasn't been a problem because Firefox was present on all flavor images, and Firefox provides www-browser as well. However, now that Firefox is a Snap, it is possible for Firefox to be installed without the firefox transitional apt package being installed. (This is the case in a default installation of Kubuntu Noble Beta.) As it turns out, Kubuntu Noble Beta ships with *no* packages that provide www- browser, meaning that any package that depends on it will have to install a new browser. Due to some stroke of misfortune, apt is picking wslu out of all packages as the package for this use case. Installing gimp-help-en will also install www-browser, which results in wslu becoming installed. wslu causes quite a few problems when installed on a desktop system - among them, the syslog is spammed with errors due to the system not in fact being a WSL VM, audio breaks in weird ways, and application launchers sometimes fail. Why this happens is unclear, but the issues appear to resolve once wslu is removed from the system. It is therefore probably a good idea to avoid wslu becoming installed on accident in this way. Probably the best way to resolve this is to ensure that some package that provides www-browser is available on every Ubuntu image. This could be done via seeding or by adding a package to ubuntu-minimal. Alternatively, wslu could be set to no longer provide www-browser, though it's unclear if that would break its functionality. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/2060898/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp