Firefox-2 is not installable

Bug #280464 reported by W. Scott Lockwood III
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firefox (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-2

Firefox-2 is not installable due to libhunspell version not being correctly parsed, or dependency not being updated correctly

scott@scott-d630:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

scott@scott-d630:~$ apt-cache policy firefox-2
firefox-2:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.0.0.15+1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2
  Version table:
     2.0.0.15+1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages

scott@scott-d630:~$ apt-cache policy libhunspell-1.2-0
libhunspell-1.2-0:
  Installed: 1.2.6-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.2.6-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.6-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

scott@scott-d630:~$ sudo apt-get -f -u -m install firefox-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  firefox-2: Depends: libhunspell-1.1-0 (>= 1.1.6-1) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

scott@scott-d630:~$ dpkg -l | grep libhunspell
ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.6-1ubuntu1 spell checker and morphological analyzer (shared

Revision history for this message
W. Scott Lockwood III (wsl3) wrote :

This is a fresh install of 8.10 beta, not an upgraded system.

Revision history for this message
John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

firefox-2 is no longer supported. Firefox 3 installs fine, either way it would hav been corrected within a day or 2

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
W. Scott Lockwood III (wsl3) wrote :

Are you kidding me? It took five months for you to dismiss this out of hand and call it invalid?

EPIC FAIL

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