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[Robert Bruce Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem with this is that webbrowser-app really is required, firefox
and chromium are getting phased out (soon firefox & chromium will simply
launch webbrowser-app when a webapp is detected).

** Changed in: libunity-webapps (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1265630

Title:
  unity-webapps-service Depends on webbrowser-app rather than Recommends

Status in “libunity-webapps” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The unity-webapps-service package has a hard Depends on webbrowser-
  app, rather than a depends on webbrowser, or an OR depends on firefox
  | chromium-browser | webbrowser-app. This results in the following
  situation:

  apt-get remove --purge webbrowser-app
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    autopilot-desktop* bamfdaemon* libunity-webapps0*
    lightdm-remote-session-uccsconfigure* unity* unity-webapps-service*
    webbrowser-app*
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  After this operation, 7,871 kB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

  A reasonable solution would be to change this dependency to be
  "webbrowser" (the virtual package provided by many web browser
  packages), and add that Provides to webbrowser-app as well. Another
  option would be to introduce a new virtual package "webapps-browser"
  which is added to the Provides of firefox, chromium-browser, and
  webbrowser-app (and any other browsers that can be used for webapps).
  And yet another option is to simply use an OR depends instead, so that
  any of the supported browsers may satisfy the dependency.

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