Public bug reported:
I noticed while upgrading my Debian testing system that something wanted
to pull in Firefox as a dependency. I traced it back to this package.
I'm not sure if this was intentional, but I believe this commit[1] will
cause a default `apt upgrade` (which installs recommended packages) to
install Firefox on systems running Xfce, KDE, Cinnamon, etc that don't
already have it installed. I imagine many of these systems will already
have Chrome, Brave, LibreWolf, or another browser installed.
Assuming tasksel is installed nearly everywhere, and that most apt
clients are configured to install recommended packages, and that Firefox
is a relatively large package, this may cause fallout. This is not a
bug but I'm posting it as one because I could imagine this affecting
tons of Debian systems.
Is Firefox specifically recommended for some reason, or can we use the
virtual package `www-browser`? Can it be moved to a suggested dep?
On an already installed system, of course one can avoid pulling in
Firefox by running `apt install --no-install-recommends task-xfce-
desktop` etc before `apt upgrade`.
```
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid
Release: n/a
$ apt-cache policy task-xfce-desktop
task-xfce-desktop:
Installed: 3.86
Candidate: 3.86
Version table:
*** 3.86 990
990 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
990 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
```
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-
team/tasksel/-/commit/678f223b27b2687d608482a1efd30cce7ca80652
** Affects: tasksel (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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firefox as recommended dep
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