[Bug 123713] Re: package description needs rewrite

[Loye Young]

Point me to something, anything, that documents what ubufox does and I'll be
happy to write a description.

>it allows you to change settings in the advanced setting page
"about:config"
Firefox already allows changing settings in about:config, without ubufox.
The question is what changes are made by ubufox.

>We are pretty much unable to get less general since ubufox has default
settings that we ship and there are way too many
Saying that the package does too much to document is pretty lame, IMHO.
Rather, it's even more important to document them.

>It is not possible at this point to install firefox without GTK apps/libs
since there is not yet a qt version.
No one is suggesting to install firefox without GTK, and trying to write it
in QT is silly. In fact, the problem isn't firefox at all.

The description says that it's adding "apt support", but that description is
misleading. The problem is the additional GNOME dependencies that apturl
drags in. What's really going on is that ubufox depends on a GNOME graphical
interface to the apt protocol. There are three alternative tacks to take.
(1) If ubufox and apturl don't do anything that is specific to GNOME, drop
the dependency on the GNOME packages in apturl; (2) Change apturl to a
Recommends dependency rather than a Depends (which probably makes sense in
any event); and (3) (germane to this bug report) Provide a more accurate
description of what the apturl dependency does. E.g., "ubufox also depends
on apturl, which is a GNOME graphical interface to the apt protocol allowing
installation of software using a URL of the software repository."


Again, if ubufox were documented somewhere, the community could help.


-- 
Loye Young
Isaac & Young Computer Company
Laredo, Texas
loye.young at iycc.net
956.857.1172

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