I got this advice from someone regarding a bug in galeon which causes it in rare circumstances to not work without the mozilla-mailnews package. I recently went ahead and depended on mozilla-mailnews... the suggestions in this mail are interesting, but i'm not sure following them would be "proper". Input is welcome. Complete information on the bug is at http://bugs.debian.org/107146 -- Jared Johnson solomon@futureks.net GPG Key ID: DF 28 CD 64 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/C d+(-)>-- s:+ a18 C++++$ UL++++>$ P+>++++ L+++ E--- W+ N+ o? K- w--- !O M-- V-- !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5-- X R-- tv- b+ DI>+ !D G e>++(>+++) h-- r* y-(>+++) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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- To: 107146@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#107146: galeon does not depend on mozilla-mailnews
- From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 01:10:17 -0800
- Message-id: <20010814011017.A18518@plato.local.lan>
- Reply-to: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>, 107146@bugs.debian.org
eb@dogbert eb$ dpkg -s mozilla-mailnews Package: mozilla-mailnews Status: purge ok not-installed Priority: optional Section: non-US eb@dogbert eb$ dpkg -s mozilla-browser | grep ^Version Version: 2:0.9.3-1 eb@dogbert eb$ dpkg -s galeon | grep ^Version Version: 0.11.5-1 the galeon package I built myself since there is no non-US powerpc build daemon, while i was at it i deleted the uneeded dependency on mozilla-mailnews, as you can see I have left that uninstalled and galeon is working perfectly on all sorts of pages. Do we really need a dependency on mozilla-mailnews for a completly unreporducable bug? a postinst message mentioning this would be better if you really feel the need. Keep in mind many of us are behind very slow network connections and mozilla is rather a bitch, adding mailnews makes it worse. Furthermore i think it will be easier to collect more data on this issue if you don't force everyone to install mozilla-mailnews, add a postinst note requesting that galeon failures (without mailnews) be reported so this can be fixed instead of sidestepped. if you never get any more reports then you can safly assume the reporter's system was broken or this is no longer an issue. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/Attachment: pgp9UNFTV2wR5.pgp
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