#945930 parl-desktop-world: depend on firefox-esr-l10n-all, thunderbird-l10n-all

#945930#5
Date:
2019-11-23 03:38:07 UTC
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Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package is no longer
installable in stable since it depends on several firefox l10n packages
that have been dropped. With the update to firefox-esr 68 in the last
point release, this removal has reached buster:

  firefox-esr-l10n-as
  firefox-esr-l10n-en-za
  firefox-esr-l10n-mai
  firefox-esr-l10n-ml
  firefox-esr-l10n-or


Cheers,

Andreas

#945930#10
Date:
2019-11-26 12:30:58 UTC
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Firefox and thunderbird are quickly moving targets and often change the
list l10n packages (also in stable).
Please depend on the firefox-esr-l10n-all, thunderbird-l10n-all
metapackages to avoid tracking the localization packages manually for
parl-desktop-world and having to update perl-desktop (in stable, too)
for each new firefox/thunderbird major release.

Andreas

#945930#19
Date:
2019-12-01 11:21:33 UTC
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Quoting Andreas Beckmann (2019-11-26 13:30:58)

Thanks for reporting this issue.

Yes, forefox and thunderbird packages frequently change even in stable.

The package selection needed for parl-desktop-world happens to match a
metapackage provided by firefox, but that is a special case unsuitable
in general for Debian parl and the underlying boxer dataset.

 - Jonas