Bug#576392: iceweasel: firefox symlink gone
Török Edwin
edwintorok at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 19:28:01 UTC 2010
Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.9-2
Severity: normal
After today's upgrade of iceweasel the firefox command is gone:
bash: firefox: command not found
If there was a package called firefox that install the firefox command I'd be
happy to install it, but there isn't:
# apt-get install firefox
...
Package firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package firefox has no installation candidate
I think Debian should ship a firefox command, even its just a symlink to
iceweasel, since people who are new to Debian won't know what iceweasel is, and
that they have to install that instead of firefox.
How about an /etc/alternatives for firefox? It defaults to iceweasel, and if the
real firefox is ever distributable as a package, then it'll switch to that.
IMHO just removing the firefox symlink like this is unacceptable for the
release.
-- Package-specific info:
-- Extensions information
Name: Adblock Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}
Status: enabled
Name: Cookie Exporter
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/cookieexporter at krk
Status: enabled
Name: Default
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled
Name: Firebug
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/firebug at software.joehewitt.com
Status: enabled
Name: Greasemonkey
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}
Status: enabled
Name: Page Speed
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{e3f6c2cc-d8db-498c-af6c-499fb211db97}
Status: enabled
Name: Tamper Data
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{9c51bd27-6ed8-4000-a2bf-36cb95c0c947}
Status: enabled
-- Plugins information
Name: Skype Buttons for Kopete
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libskypebuttons.so
Package: kopete
Status: enabled
Name: VLC Multimedia Plug-in
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so
Package: mozilla-plugin-vlc
Status: enabled
-- Addons package information
ii iceweasel 3.5.9-2 Web browser based on Firefox
ii kopete 4:4.3.4-2 instant messenger for KDE 4
ii mozilla-plugin 1.0.5-2 multimedia plugin for web browsers based on
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-00175-g2d1299a0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.0-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.7-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.4-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.5-20100227-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.8-8 /proc file system utilities
ii psmisc 22.10-1 utilities that use the proc file s
ii xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.9-3 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii latex-xft-fonts 1.6.5-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
pn mozplugger <none> (no description available)
ii ttf-lyx 1.6.5-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font
pn ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> (no description available)
ii xfonts-mathml 4 Type1 Symbol font for MathML
pn xprint <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages xulrunner-1.9.1 depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.22-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.5-20100227-1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.0-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.7-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.8-6 spell checker and morphological an
ii libjpeg62 6b-16.1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmozjs2d 1.9.1.8-5 The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.4-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.6-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.43-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libreadline6 6.1-1 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.23.1-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstartup-notification 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.5-20100227-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.5-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
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