Le lundi 23 mai 2016 à 11:53 -0400, The Wanderer a écrit : > Package: zotero-standalone > Version: 4.0.29.5+dfsg-1 > Severity: minor
> The long package description of zotero-standalone states in part > that: > > "This package contains the standalone version of Zotero which does > not > require any Firefox browser." > > However, the package includes a Depends: line which lists both > firefox > and firefox-esr. As such, the package cannot in fact be installed > without a Firefox browser. > > If this version of Zotero does in fact require the presence of a > Firefox > browser on the system, then the package description is incorrect and > needs to be revised. (And the description of the program as > "standalone" > may be argued to be misleading.) Indeed it requires firefox installed on the system. But it does not need the firefox browser to be running. It uses a separate process and window. Hence this is why it is called “standalone”. Do you have a suggestion for rephrasing the description? > I notice that the Depends: line from package version 4.0.22-1 lists > several different versions of xulrunner as alternatives, with > iceweasel > as the last option in the list. It seems possible that it was once > possible to install Zotero standalone (with no Firefox browser > present), > by installing one of the xulrunner packages instead, and that when > the > xulrunner alternatives were dropped the package description was not > altered to match Indeed it used to depend on xulrunner, but the latter was dropped (and you should ask the Mozilla maintainers if you are interested in the underlying reasons). Cheers, -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://sebastien.villemot.name `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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