Bug#607455: sun-java6-plugin: pulls in iceweasel as a dependency if google-chrome-stable is installed

[Tom Sullivan]

Package: sun-java6-plugin
Version: 6.22-1
Severity: normal


The deb provided by Google for Chrome (google-chrome-stable) provides 'google-chrome' while sun-java6-plugin does not have this as a dependency. Thus, apt installs iceweasel to satisfy the dependency on a browser.

To fix this, 'google-chrome' could be added to the dependency listing for sun-java6-plugin.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sun-java6-plugin depends on:
ii  iceweasel                     3.5.15-1   Web browser based on Firefox
ii  libasound2                    1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-4  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.1.2-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                        2:1.3-5    X11 Input extension library
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.1.0-3  X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii  sun-java6-bin                 6.22-1     Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

sun-java6-plugin recommends no packages.

sun-java6-plugin suggests no packages.

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