firefox-3.5 install on Kubuntu requires Gnome packages

[bamyasi]

Attempted firefox-3.5 install on my Kubuntu 9.04 system today, see apt-get install output below. It looks like the firefox-3.5 package depends on A LOT of Gnome packages. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I would consider this a bug.

# apt-get install firefox-3.5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apturl firefox-3.5-branding gksu gnome-app-install gnome-icon-theme libcanberra0 libgksu2-0
  libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgtkhtml2-0 libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libtdb1
  libvte-common libvte9 python-gconf python-gtkhtml2 python-launchpad-integration python-pyorbit
  python-sexy python-vte software-properties-gtk synaptic ubufox xulrunner-1.9.1
Suggested packages:
  firefox-3.5-gnome-support libcanberra-gtk0 python-gconf-dbg python-gnome2-extras-doc
  python-launchpad-integration-dbg python-pyorbit-dbg dwww deborphan
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apturl firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-branding gksu gnome-app-install gnome-icon-theme libcanberra0 libgksu2-0
  libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgtkhtml2-0 libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libtdb1
  libvte-common libvte9 python-gconf python-gtkhtml2 python-launchpad-integration python-pyorbit
  python-sexy python-vte software-properties-gtk synaptic ubufox xulrunner-1.9.1
0 upgraded, 27 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 17.8MB of archives.
After this operation, 72.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

# uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 22:12:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

# apt-cache policy firefox-3.5
firefox-3.5:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.5~b4~hg20090330r24021+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     3.5~b4~hg20090330r24021+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages

[bamyasi (iadzhubey)]

Just discovered this bug has already been reported (several times), e.g. see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubufox/+bug/365965

Sorry for duping.

[Dennis Craven (dcraven)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported as you suggest and is a duplicate of bug 365965, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.