[Bug 1992688] Re: firefox deb not installed

[Brian Murray]

** Description changed:

- Bug 1964036 leads me to believe that the firefox deb provides some
- important functionality (the firefox favourite icon in the gnome shell
- dock) but there is nothing that would require the deb to be installed
- (it is not seeded nor has an rdep) and the package description indicates
- that it can be safely removed. Is there some important functionality
- that it provides?
+ Impact
+ ------
+ Applications with x-www-browser to launch Firefox will not work on a freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04 system as the firefox deb is not installed.
+ 
+ Test Plan
+ ---------
+ 1) Install Ubuntu 22.04.2 using an amd64 desktop iso image
+ 2) Open a terminal
+ 3) Run x-www-browser www.ubuntu.com
+ 4) Observe a command not found message which recommends installing firefox
+ 
+ Where problems could occur
+ --------------------------
+ 
+ Other Info
+ ----------
+ I tested an upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 and the firefox deb was not removed during the upgrade process so upgrades are a non-issue.
+ 
+ Original Description
+ --------------------
+ Bug 1964036 leads me to believe that the firefox deb provides some important functionality (the firefox favourite icon in the gnome shell dock) but there is nothing that would require the deb to be installed (it is not seeded nor has an rdep) and the package description indicates that it can be safely removed. Is there some important functionality that it provides?
  
  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.10.8
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 5.19.0-19.19-generic 5.19.7
  Uname: Linux 5.19.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckMismatches: ./boot/grub/grub.cfg
  CasperMD5CheckResult: fail
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Oct 12 11:30:46 2022
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-27 (167 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-10-12 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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Title:
  firefox deb not installed

Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in firefox source package in Jammy:
  Invalid
Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Impact
  ------
  Applications with x-www-browser to launch Firefox will not work on a freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04 system as the firefox deb is not installed.

  Test Plan
  ---------
  1) Install Ubuntu 22.04.2 using an amd64 desktop iso image
  2) Open a terminal
  3) Run x-www-browser www.ubuntu.com
  4) Observe a command not found message which recommends installing firefox

  Where problems could occur
  --------------------------

  Other Info
  ----------
  I tested an upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 and the firefox deb was not removed during the upgrade process so upgrades are a non-issue.

  Original Description
  --------------------
  Bug 1964036 leads me to believe that the firefox deb provides some important functionality (the firefox favourite icon in the gnome shell dock) but there is nothing that would require the deb to be installed (it is not seeded nor has an rdep) and the package description indicates that it can be safely removed. Is there some important functionality that it provides?

  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.10.8
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 5.19.0-19.19-generic 5.19.7
  Uname: Linux 5.19.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckMismatches: ./boot/grub/grub.cfg
  CasperMD5CheckResult: fail
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Oct 12 11:30:46 2022
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-27 (167 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-10-12 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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