## In a few words Reported by temp-453632 on Element[1]. At first, I didn't see the link between `gimp-help-en` and `firefox`. After some investigation, we realized we need to add something like `Provides: www-browser` to `control.in`[2]. ## More details temp-453632 tested several cases. We confirmed this behavior only occurs when he install Firefox from our debian repository. temp-453632 is on Kubuntu 20.04. On that version, `gimp-help-en` depends on one of these packages[3]: > gimp-helpbrowser > Package not available > or www-browser > virtual package provided by [hide 23 providing packages] chromium-browser, dillo, edbrowse, elinks, epiphany-browser, falkon, firefox, hv3, konqueror, links, links2, lynx, midori, netrik, netsurf, netsurf-fb, netsurf-gtk, surf, w3m, wslu, xemacs21-mule, xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn, xemacs21-nomule Canonical puts this metadata in their Firefox package[4]: ``` Provides: gnome-www-browser, iceweasel, www-browser ``` I guess that explains the difference of the behavior that temp-453632 saw. :gabriel, what do you think? [1] https://matrix.to/#/!gTeEstkMlPUdxvIdCE:mozilla.org/$ZC2ZuzYSUzB5tsbqvzB1iGF41zhCNxGbAdN1Bx1Mbxs?via=mozilla.org&via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de [2] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/56dd89bcf4d3b85f66621e89eac6e2936ad382d9/browser/installer/linux/app/debian/control.in#9 [3] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/gimp-help-en [4] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/firefox#pdownload
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## In a few words Reported by temp-453632 on Element[1]. At first, I didn't see the link between `gimp-help-en` and `firefox`. After some investigation, we realized we need to add something like `Provides: www-browser` to `control.in`[2]. ## More details temp-453632 tested several cases. We confirmed this behavior only occurs when he install Firefox from our debian repository. temp-453632 is on Kubuntu 20.04. On that version, `gimp-help-en` depends on one of these packages[3]: > gimp-helpbrowser > * Package not available > > or www-browser > * virtual package provided by [hide 23 providing packages] chromium-browser, dillo, edbrowse, elinks, epiphany-browser, falkon, firefox, hv3, konqueror, links, links2, lynx, midori, netrik, netsurf, netsurf-fb, netsurf-gtk, surf, w3m, wslu, xemacs21-mule, xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn, xemacs21-nomule Canonical puts this metadata in their Firefox package[4]: ``` Provides: gnome-www-browser, iceweasel, www-browser ``` I guess that explains the difference of the behavior that temp-453632 saw. :gabriel, what do you think? [1] https://matrix.to/#/!gTeEstkMlPUdxvIdCE:mozilla.org/$ZC2ZuzYSUzB5tsbqvzB1iGF41zhCNxGbAdN1Bx1Mbxs?via=mozilla.org&via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de [2] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/56dd89bcf4d3b85f66621e89eac6e2936ad382d9/browser/installer/linux/app/debian/control.in#9 [3] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/gimp-help-en [4] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/firefox#pdownload