Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 03:25:49PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > As discussed in https://bugs.debian.org/1076101 , package > xsane has a Recommends: firefox | www-browser relationship for > its binary package. As package firefox does not appear in > Debian Stable or Debian Testing, installing xsane will introduce > other packages that provides www-browser virtual package, causing > unexpected consequences.
Is the recommendation firefox, or any browser which complies with www-browser? It seems odd to recommend any browser and then complain that it causes unexpected consequences. That's a different issue than: > The known side effect is that the default > Debian Bookworm LXQt installation introduces package hv3 as > www-browser provider, which is an unmaintained web browser that > is dangerous if provided as default internet browser. Further details > are discussed in the Debian bug report 1076101. Perhaps some thought should be given to whether hv3 belongs in stable if it is "dangerous" and unmaintained? I don't see any bug reports against it, although it's been removed from sid and testing already which is never a good sign. I don't really have a good idea what you mean by "dangerous" here. > To avoid further surprises for Debian LXQt users, modifying the > recommendation to Recommends: firefox-esr | firefox | www-browser > is a reasonable mitigation. This change is now present in Debian > Unstable as xsane/0.999-12.1. As above, I question whether there should be a recommendation on www-browser at all if that breaks things. Please remove the moreinfo tag when you respond. Thanks, -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 ed25519/0x196418AAEB74C8A1: CA619D65A72A7BADFC96D280196418AAEB74C8A1
