On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:48:27 -0600, Adam Fabian wrote: > I installed etch from a testing installer CD yesterday, and I wanted > to install mozplugger after installing firefox, but it depends on > iceweasel. Is it propagating down to testing? I did some googling, > and people talk as if it was already in testing.
It did not make it into testing before the freeze: http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/iceweasel.html I think it is possible to install the currently "unstable" iceweasel .deb on an Etch system. > Aside from that, I > want to install mozplugger, and it depends on iceweasel, but my apt > only finds a firefox. I'd like to install mozplugger, and, > presumably, iceweasel, since that's what it depends on. I browsed the > January archives of this list, didn't see anything that that resembled > this problem. I haven't used Debian in a while, but my recollection > of testing was that packages in testing didn't depend on packages that > weren't in testing yet, but I could be totally misremembering... As far as I know, each package transitions independently from unstable to testing, normally after a ten-day waiting period has passed without any serious bugs being found. Quite often a set of interdependent packages is updated in unstable at the same time, but they can still run out of synch, for example if a bug in one of the packages requires a new upload and thus restarts the waiting period for that particular package. The fact that Etch is frozen due to its imminent release means that some manual intervention is now required to bring iceweasel to Etch. I don't know how that will be handled, but I would expect that a solution will be found quickly to avoid the firefox licensing issue for the release of Etch. [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache depends mozplugger > mozplugger > Depends: m4 > Depends: libc6 > Depends: libx11-6 > |Depends: <iceweasel> > |Depends: <iceape-browser> > |Depends: epiphany-browser > |Depends: galeon > Depends: konqueror > Conflicts: <plugger> > Replaces: <plugger> I think the easiest workaround right now is too install either epiphany-browser, galeon or konqueror. I would expect that firefox will also be able to find the plug-ins once mozplugger is installed. You could also use equivs to generate a "fake" iceweasel .deb to satisfy the dependency (as far as dpkg can tell). -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
