Azureus depends on mozilla-browser, unncessarily?

Thanks for your bug report.

(dapper, azureus 2.4.0.2-0ubuntu2)

mozilla-browser isn't listed directly as a dependency in azureus , but libswt3.1-gtk-java, which is a dependency, depends itself on mozilla-browser, so mozilla-browser is required to install azureus.

This problem against libswt3.1-gtk-java was already reported on Debian BTS #356497

This is surely not a 'wishlist' item. It is a serious bug against libswt3.1-gtk-java. The whole point of a shared library is that it can be used independently by other applications.

Is there someone who can comment on the status of this bug? It's definitely annoying and rather inefficient to have to install mozilla-browser to install libswt3.1. The debian bug report talked about how there was nothing available to replace, can someone expand on that?

Confirm the same bug for latest Dapper.
Nothing changed since your report.

This bug is also true for the Eclipse package (on Dapper) and I agree that it is really annoying.
I think that libswt depends on Mozilla because of the browser widget that needs Gecko. Couldn't it be compiled against Firefox, which is anyway installed as default browser?

Is someone working on this really annoying bug ? I think this can be resolve by reviewing the repackaging policy to separate the needed library into a new package.

i also can confirm this

This is a problem in swt and the only solution is waiting for a release which would use firefox or xulrunner, or remove the browser support in swt.

I hope it can be made to compile against Firefox instead of mozilla-browser.

I remember liferea used to depend on mozilla, but was fixed to compile against Firefox. Probably the same can be done for azureus too.

I don't have mozilla-browser installed and I fetched azureus as tarball directly from azureus.sf.net. It works fine, so the dependancy must be wrong.

no, the dependencies aren't wrong. The tarball you downloaded is
standalone (contains all the library it needs) so it doesn't need any
other thing . When developers package a software the do their best to
reuse existing installed software and that creates the dependency concept.

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This seems to be fixed in Edgy

Indeed, this appears to be no longer a problem.