Bug#268655: epiphany-browser: Please use user-agent branding to
note debian package version in ua string
Erich Schubert
Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org>, 268655@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:44:14 +0200
Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 1.2.8-1
Severity: minor
Epiphany should have a branded UA, just like Mozilla and Galeon
(and hopefully many other) do.
Example user agents:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Galeon/1.3.17 (Debian package 1.3.17-1)
Please talk to the mozilla folks which type of branding is preferred.
http://www.mozilla.org/build/revised-user-agent-strings.html
I don't think the branding as used by Mozilla Browser is optimal.
I think the debian branding of Galeon is done better.
(Some parsers might interpret the mozilla-browser branding as
"mozilla-based browser named Debian")
Epiphany branding could be done similar, considering the common origin
of Epiphany and Galeon probably the same patch can be reused.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1+sws+acpi
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.32 Debian configuration management sy
ii gconf2 2.7.91.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnome-icon-theme 1.2.3-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-4 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.2-6 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.34-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) -
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-7 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.7.91.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-6 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.6-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.2.1-3 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.7.91-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.7.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.7.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.7.91-3 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-7 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error values an
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.9-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.5.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-4 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxml2 2.6.11-3 GNOME XML library
ii mozilla-browser 2:1.7.2-4 The Mozilla Internet application s
ii mozilla-psm 2:1.7.2-4 The Mozilla Internet application s
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-8 A free electronic cataloging syste
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-7 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information