Meta-gnome3 dependency on xul-ext-adblock-plus (Bug #689858)

[Johannes Rohr <jorohr@gmail.com>]

Dear GNOME maintainers,

while I do use adblock plus with Iceweasel, it seems a bit arbitrary to 
me that the gnome meta package declares a dependency on it. Adblock plus 
is not part of the GNOME desktop. In addition, it pulls in  iceweasel 
which also isn't. What is the rationale behind this decision?

Until now, I had assumed, that the policy regarding Debian's GNOME 
desktop was to closely reflect the official GNOME desktop as defined by 
upstream. I see that the gnome metapackage is not totally strict on 
that, but still, most packages which are not part of the official GNOME 
release are suggests or recommends, not depends. Why this exception, for 
a package which isn't even based on the GNOME platform?

BTW: I do keep on using adblock plus myself, however, there are some who 
dislike it since the developer has begun to generate revenues through 
paid-for exclusion from the filter lists for some types of ads. 
Therefore, as I understand, some people are now using different adblockers.

So I would suggest to at least lower the dependency to suggests, if not 
to drop it from the dependencies altogether.

Thanks,

Johannes