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firefox-3.0 package

firefox-3.0-dev contains only documentation

Bug #198049 reported by Charles Duffy (M1)
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
Rolf Leggewie

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Running hardy (8.04) and firefox-3.0-dev version 3.0~b3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4

The dev package doesn't include xpidl, headers, or any other expected contents other than documentation:

$ dpkg -L firefox-3.0-dev
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/firefox-3.0-dev
/usr/share/doc/firefox-3.0-dev/README
/usr/share/doc/firefox-3.0-dev/README/mozilla
/usr/share/doc/firefox-3.0-dev/copyright
/usr/share/doc/firefox-3.0-dev/README/mozilla/README.build
/usr/share/doc/firefox-3.0-dev/changelog.Debian.gz

Revision history for this message
Fabien Tassin (fta) wrote :

Those files are not installed by design. The SDK is in xulrunner-1.9-dev, yet it does not include the browser header files.

Do you have a user case for them that we can report upstream ?

Changed in firefox-3.0:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided.
Please feel free to reopen this bug with further information if you
still experience this problem.

Thank you for your help in making ubuntu the best distro out there.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
assignee: nobody → r0lf
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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