Your message dated Sun, 9 Nov 2025 19:14:44 -0500
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and subject line closing old epiphany-browser bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #743398,
regarding epiphany-browser: installing epiphany sets it as default browser,
purging does not set it back
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
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743398: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743398
Debian Bug Tracking System
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Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 3.4.2-2.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
aptitude install epiphany-browser
aptitude purge epiphany-browser
try to open a link in icedove
* What was the outcome of this action?
nothing happened
* What outcome did you expect instead?
open the link in iceweasel
google led me to try these commands, which said iceweasel was already the
default and did not help
# update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
# update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser
finally, in iceweasel options menu, I clicked a button to set it as default,
which resolved the problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.13-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii dbus-x11 1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii epiphany-browser-data 3.4.2-2.1
ii gnome-icon-theme 3.4.0-2
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.4.2-3
ii iso-codes 3.41-1
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.31-2
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-2
ii libavahi-gobject0 0.6.31-2
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u1
ii libcairo2 1.12.2-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.32.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii libgnome-keyring0 3.4.1-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-7
ii libice6 2:1.0.8-2
ii libnotify4 0.7.5-1
ii libnspr4 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u1
ii libnss3 2:3.14.5-1
ii libnss3-1d 2:3.14.5-1
ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
ii libseed-gtk3-0 3.2.0-2
ii libsm6 2:1.2.1-2
ii libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.38.1-2
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.38.1-2
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 1.8.1-3.4
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-14.1
Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20130119
ii evince 3.4.0-3.1
ii yelp 3.4.2-1+b1
Versions of packages epiphany-browser suggests:
pn epiphany-extensions <none>
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--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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