I think the switch to Webkit is premature. Both browsers have severe
customizability limitations, but at least Epiphany-gecko allowed to you
tweak it with about:config.
This bug is not invalid BTW, right now this is what you get when you try
to install epiphany-gecko:
# apt-get install epiphany-gecko
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
epiphany-gecko: Depends: epiphany-browser (>= 2.28.0) but it is not going to
be installed
E: Broken packages
# sudo apt-get install epiphany-gecko epiphany-browser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
epiphany-browser is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
epiphany-browser: Conflicts: epiphany-gecko but 2.28.0-4ubuntu1 is to be
installed
E: Broken packages
#
The error messages don't make any sense whatsoever. It's one thing to
say "We don't actually offer epiphany-gecko any more", but quite another
to simply leave an entry enticingly in the repository (which will also
break third party attempts to provide a usable version) which cannot be
installed because of an error that clearly isn't an error (how is
2.28.0-4ubuntu1 not >= 2.28.0?)
I've changed the status accordingly. Let's either fix the package or
repair the dependency problems, not pretend there's no bug here simply
because it peripherally involves an unsupported product - the repository
itself most certainly is supported, and at the very minimum, that's
broken.
** Changed in: epiphany-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
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epiphany-gecko can't be installed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439818
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