Bug#493948: gnome should depend on swfdec-gnome, not swfdec-mozilla

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Wed Aug 27 23:01:23 UTC 2008


Le mercredi 06 août 2008 à 08:11 +0200, Olivier Berger a écrit :
> Package: gnome
> Version: 1:2.22.2~3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I can't understand the rationale here that gnome package depends on
> swfdec-mozilla, and not swfdec-gnome.

gnome-desktop-environment (which provides the official GNOME desktop,
minus Mono stuff) already depends on swfdec-gnome.

> Is this just a typo ?

No.

> In any case, forcing the use of one flash decoder inside the web browser
> (used outside of gnome too) doesn't seem right to me.

It is well known and unfortunate that mozilla lacks a plugin manager,
but this shouldn’t prevent a metapackage to provide a *complete*
environment.

> I would maybe understand a recommend here.

A recommend would mean swfdec-mozilla would not be installed by default
since tasksel does not honor recommends.

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