Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Fri 16 Mar 2012 at 16:45:13 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: Baruch whatmeurg...@yahoo.com wrote: # aptitude why iceweasel i   sun-java6-plugin Depends firefox | firefox-2 | iceweasel | mozilla-firefox |   iceape-browser | mozilla-browser | epiphany-gecko

Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-16 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Baruch, please respond to the list rather than me personally. Please also don’t top-post (cf. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html ). I took the liberty to quote the relevant part of your answer in case someone else finds this thread: Baruch whatmeurg...@yahoo.com wrote: #

Advice for a bug report

2012-03-15 Thread Baruch
The debian bug reporting system webpage wrote to e-mail this list for advice regarding against which package a bug should be reported, so here goes . . . I had decided to:     apt-get -s purge iceweasel* firefox* But apt-get insisted:    The following extra packages will be installed:       

Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Baruch, Baruch whatmeurg...@yahoo.com wrote: My guess is that this is a bug somewhere in the 'alternatives' system, and that it is (against my wishes) trying to force me to have a graphical browser installed. Probably not. Against what package should I file the bug? (FWIW - debian

Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:27:55 -0700, Baruch wrote: [Snipped: apt-get doings] My guess is that this is a bug somewhere in the 'alternatives' system, and that it is (against my wishes) trying to force me to have a graphical browser installed. Against what package should I file the bug?