there should be a mozilla-firefox transitional package

Bug #19817 reported by Greg Michalec
18
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ian Jackson

Bug Description

I'm running Breezy-Badger on AMD64 - I noticed that my version of
mozilla-firefox is 1.0.2-0ubuntu5, which is pretty out of date. I checked on
packages.ubuntu.com, and, sure enough, I see that
firefox_1.0.6-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb is available. However I do apt-get update, and
then:

sh-3.00# apt-get install mozilla-firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
mozilla-firefox is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Here's where it gets interesting:
sh-3.00# apt-cache show mozilla-firefox
Package: mozilla-firefox
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Installed-Size: 28948
Maintainer: Eric Dorland <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.2-0ubuntu5
Provides: www-browser
Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, debianutils (>= 1.16), libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16),
libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.5.4),
libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.1), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1),
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0-0pre6ubuntu4), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.9), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0),
libgnome2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.6.0), libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.8.0),
libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.9.90), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0), libice6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0),
libidl0, libjpeg62, libkrb53 (>= 1.3.2), liborbit2 (>= 1:2.12.0), libpango1.0-0
(>= 1.8.1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libpopt0 (>= 1.7), libsm6 | xlibs (>>
4.1.0), libstdc++6-0 (>= 3.4.3-1), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxft2 (>>
2.1.1), libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.6.17), libxrender1, libxt6 | xlibs (>>
4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Suggests: mozilla-firefox-gnome-support (= 1.0.2-0ubuntu5), latex-xft-fonts,
xprt-xprintorg
Filename: pool/universe/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_1.0.2-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb
Size: 9754280
MD5sum: 5c59aa7ef862eed905d48be78451cfad
Description: lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
 Firefox is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to
 Galeon, K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface
 language and designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.
 .
 This browser was previously known as Firebird and Phoenix.
Bugs: mailto:<email address hidden>
Origin: Ubuntu

The cache is trying to pull firefox from the universe, but the version on
packages.ubuntu.org is in pool/main/f/firefox/ (the main repository). I checked
the universe at http://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firefox/ , and
there is no mozilla-firefox package there.

I know I can just probably just apt-get install --reinstall to fix the problem,
but I'm wondering if theres something else wierd going on here that should be
looked into. If this is somehow expected behavior, let me know and I'll go on my
way :) Just trying to keep ubuntu the best distro there be,

Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb file:/var/cache/apt-build/repository apt-build main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe restricted multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe restricted multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main universe restricted
multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted universe
multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
universe multiverse
deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian/ sid non-free
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main
deb http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/debian ./
deb http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/debian/ ./
deb http://rufus.hackish.org/~rufus/files/fglrx/ ./

also, for what its worth, my mozilla thundebird is the proper version
(1.0.6-0ubuntu4) and is being pulled from main. I also should mention that I
upgraded from hoary via apt-get dist-upgrade last week (at a time when x.org for
amd64 had missing packages - it wasn't a pretty upgrade), so maybe the problem
arose from that?

Please let me know if further information is required.

Thanks

--greg

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Ian Jackson (ijackson) wrote :

*** Bug 21145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Ian Jackson (ijackson) wrote :

This is fixed in 1.0.6-1ubuntu13

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