Bug#511477: iceape: Shouldn't release with Lenny

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:29:36AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:18:49AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 03:47:18PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > > Two approaches to resolve this have been proposed: 
> > > 
> > >  As far as I know, there should be patches in Ubuntu to build some of
> > >  the packages you listed against xulrunner 1.9; I guess that would be
> > >  the best solution.  I'm not sure icedove / xulrunner 1.8 will be
> > >  maintainable for a long period.
> > > 
> > >  I also wonder whether mozilla-bonobo can be dropped.
> > 
> > After a bit more investigation it appears as if solution (2)
> > won't work, since iceape-dev itself depends on iceape-browser.
> 
> Do you mean depends as in debian/control, or as in dropping the
> package dependency doesn't work?

As in debian/control:

Package: iceape-dev
[..]
Depends: iceape-browser (>= 1.1.14), iceape-browser (<= 1.1.14-1.1~), iceape-dev-bin (>= 1.1.14), libnspr4-dev

Or is the dependency not technically needed for the use cases, which
remain in the archive?

Cheers,
        Moritz