I just got caught up by this bug as well with Kubuntu 24.04. I think it
started happening when I replaced the firefox snap with Mozilla's apt
repo as listed here - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-
firefox-
linux?utm_source=www.mozilla.org_medium=referral_campaign=firefox-
There probably should not be a dependency on a virtual package like
this, when it contains options that will not actually do what is
required of the depency. Wslu is an especially annoying option to have
in the list, because it causes all sorts of problems when installed
without actually using
** Changed in: gimp-help (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1971763
Title:
www-browser is not satisfied by the default Firefox snap
To
The gimp-help-* packages have a dependency on only virtual packages rather than
firefox-esr | firefox | chromium | x-www-browser
or something which is a bug. as it will pick a random one. Also I'm not sure
why it would depend on the non-graphical browser virtual package (www-browser)
instead
The Firefox deb is not installed by default (on a minimal or normal install).
Installing it manually does fulfill the dependency.
www-browser defaults to wslu if the user did not already install the Firefox
deb. This is problematic because the translation packages Ubuntu asks its users
to
Thank you for your bug report. Do you have the firefox deb installed?
It's not providing the software but ensuring the snap is installed and
providing www-browser
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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** Description changed:
- When installing a package that has the virtual-packages www-browser as a
+ When installing a package that has the virtual-package www-browser as a
dependency, the Firefox snap is not taken into account.
This leads to wslu being installed on Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop
