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

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Mon Sep 1 20:06:08 UTC 2008


Le lundi 01 septembre 2008 à 16:29 -0300, Margarita Manterola a écrit :
> Alright, I understand the problem.  However, using a "depends" when
> it's not really something that is depended on (all browsers can
> perfectly work without a flash player) breaks the definition of the
> Depends field.

gnome is a metapackage. A Depends for it means that it is installed when
gnome is installed, nothing more.

> [1]: this was fixed for gnash in swfdec-mozilla/0.6.0-3, but it's not
> fixed (and I think it can't be fixed) for the closed flash plugin, and
> we know that lots of flash pages don't work with neither swf nor
> gnash.

Christian Marillat’s package now also uses the alternative.

Cheers,
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