Comment 5 for bug 137993

So it can be added as Dependency with another |, so it's or a gecko browser
or xulrunner

On 10/29/07, Forest Bond <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:47:24AM -0000, Cesare Tirabassi wrote:
> > Personally, I don't think that www browsers should be made
> recommendations and
> > not dependencies.
> > Let me quote the debian policy:
> >
> > The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required
> > for the depending package to provide a significant amount of
> > functionality.
> >
> > While:
> >
> > The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
> > with this one in all but unusual installations.
> >
> > Now, I hope you agree that to provide a significant amount of
> > functionality for this plugin a www browser is needed?
> >
> > Whether it makes sense or not to add xulrunner to the list of
> dependancies
> > (or-ed!) its a matter of testing it.
> > For instance, I have not added it to gecko-mediaplayer yet (from the
> same
> > upstream author) simply because I don't have any evidence that it will
> work.
> > Just the fact that it makes sense that it works is not enough (for
> instance
> > gecko-mediaplayer should work with Opera and Konqueror, but it doesn't).
> > Can you perhaps test it and confirm if the mozilla-mplayer works with
> xul
> > based applications (via xulrunner)?
>
> I've tested it. It works.
>
> Why should plugin-browser combinations have to be tested by package
> maintainers?
> That just doesn't seem very fair to users that want to use a less popular
> browser. They'll end up waiting a release or two before the dependencies
> will
> be in their favor.
>
> I guess it'd be nice if it could Depend: gecko-browser ...
>
> -Forest
> --
> Forest Bond
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> mozilla-mplayer unnecessarily depends on gecko browsers
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