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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