Bug#843219: reglookup-doc: Please don't depend on firefox-esr

2016-11-05 Thread Giovani Ferreira


On 05-11-2016 14:19, Tim wrote:
> I agree, it doesn't really make sense to depend on a specific browser.
> At most, "recommend" a generic browser virtual package, like
> www-browser, but even then I don't know that it is necessary

Actually, after the upload I noticed that it would be a problem, this 
was already on my to do list.

Fixing now!

cheers,

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Giovani Ferreira
http://softwarelivre.org/jova2
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Bug#843219: reglookup-doc: Please don't depend on firefox-esr

2016-11-05 Thread Tim

I agree, it doesn't really make sense to depend on a specific browser.
At most, "recommend" a generic browser virtual package, like
www-browser, but even then I don't know that it is necessary.

tim



Bug#843219: reglookup-doc: Please don't depend on firefox-esr

2016-11-05 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Package: reglookup-doc
Version: 1.0.1+svn287-4

Please don't have reglookup-doc depend on firefox-esr.

There are many -doc packages in Debian that provide HTML documentation
and as far as I can see, reglookup-doc is the only one that depends on
firefox-esr.

Some users may prefer a different web browser and some systems (like
Ubuntu) don't have firefox-esr available.

I recommend not depending or recommending on any browser since
documentation packages may be installed on desktop or headless servers
and the best browser differs significantly for those cases.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha