Package: firefox Version: 60.0.2-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer, So, a few days ago, apt autoremoved ffmpeg's libraries (libavcodec57, libavdevice57, libavfilter6, libavformat57, libavutil55, libswresample2, libswscale4 and a couple more) because they were no longer needed by any package. Actually, they were direct dependencies of chromium up to 67.0.3396.79-1, and, after the upgrade to 67.0.3396.79-2, which makes chromium use its embedded ffmpeg code, so they are no longer needed. However, it seems that firefox also uses them for its html5 support, e.g. h264 video playback. And without them, firefox either switches to flash on sites that do have flash as a fallback option, which is patheric in terms of performance, or does not play the relevant media at all and pops up a message like "unsuppored file format" or something. When lauched from a terminal, this message comes up $ firefox [Parent 19225, Gecko_IOThread] WARNING: pipe error (120): Connection reset by peer: file /build/firefox-6iUvb9/firefox-60.0.2/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 353 Reinstalling the above libraries brings back that precious html5 support, so please make them as direct dependencies. All of the above apply to firefox-esr of experimental as well, so please update that package as well. Thank you in advance. -- Package-specific info: -- Addons package information -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages firefox depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.6 ii fontconfig 2.13.0-5 ii libatk1.0-0 2.28.1-1 ii libc6 2.27-3 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.15.10-3 ii libcairo2 1.15.10-3 ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.8-2 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-2 ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4 ii libffi6 3.2.1-8 ii libfontconfig1 2.13.0-5 ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-2 ii libgcc1 1:8.1.0-5 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.56.1-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.29-3 ii libhunspell-1.6-0 1.6.2-1+b1 ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3 ii libnspr4 2:4.19-3 ii libnss3 2:3.37.1-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.24.0-1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-5 ii libstdc++6 8.1.0-5 ii libvpx5 1.7.0-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.5-1 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.5-1 ii libxcb-shm0 1.13-1 ii libxcb1 1.13-1 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 ii procps 2:3.3.15-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 firefox recommends no packages. Versions of packages firefox suggests: pn fonts-lmodern <none> pn fonts-stix | otf-stix <none> ii libcanberra0 0.30-6 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.16-2 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-1 -- no debconf information
