1905073 - Upgrading Mozilla's .deb package makes `apt` uninstall `gimp-help-en`

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: Release Automation, defect, P2)

Description

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

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

Comment 1

[Gabriel Bustamante [:gabriel]]

Thanks for doing that research Johan, I can put up a patch to fix this.

Comment 2

[Gabriel Bustamante [:gabriel]]

Attachment: Bug 1905073 - Add Provides meta-data to the Firefox .deb package r=#releng-reviewers

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/576f4de811d7
Add Provides meta-data to the Firefox .deb package r=jcristau

Comment 4

[Cristina Horotan [:chorotan]]

Backed out 3 changesets (bug 1905073, bug 1876701, bug 1863757) for causing mbu failures at test_deb.py

Backout: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9ee757d7dd046175eda93bb1c5c3314d0d3033e5

Failure push:
https://treeherder.mozilla.org/jobs?repo=autoland&group_state=expanded&resultStatus=testfailed%2Cbusted%2Cexception%2Cretry%2Cusercancel&revision=989113ca866fc620e82eedb70d76bb3b567bb701

Failure log: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer?job_id=468568677&repo=autoland&lineNumber=2613

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/99d220318125
Add Provides meta-data to the Firefox .deb package r=jcristau

Comment 6

[Norisz Fay [:noriszfay]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/99d220318125