Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?
On 2010-03-17, Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not
>> the case on Lenny:
>
>
> I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2
> 2.28+6 transitioned to squeeze on 2010-03-16). The reason seems to be
> that swfdec was removed. The changelog[0] for meta-gnome2 says (among
> other things):
>
>
> * Drop swfdec-gnome.
> * Make gnome depend on mozilla-plugin-gnash so that there’s at least
> something for Flash websites.
>
The changelog appears to refer to the gnome metapackage rather than
gnome-core.
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Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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