When I install (or remove) pyTrainer, firefox is also installed (or removed)

[Nick Sillito]

Binary package hint: pytrainer

Results of installing pyTrainer:

sudo apt-get install pyTrainer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  firefox firefox-branding pytrainer
Suggested packages:
  firefox-gnome-support firefox-kde-support
The following NEW packages will be installed
  firefox firefox-branding pytrainer
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
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Version:

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

Expectations:
Firefox and pytrainer are independent (or does pytrainer use firefox to display the map or something odd like that?)

[Xavier Bassery (xaba)]

Pytrainer uses (and depends on) python-gtkmozembed, to display web content (for googlemaps and
But I don't see why a dependency on any browser should be needed for pytrainer.
Do I miss something?

[Bodsda (bodsda)]

Firefox is listed as a dependency, I haven't dug through to find out why yet. The description confirms firefox gets installed with pytrainer, but can anyone confirm if it gets removed when removing pytrainer? I would imagine it doesn't due to many other dependencies, if that's the case then this is not a bug.

[Christian Perrier (bubulle)]

Quoting Bodsda (<email address hidden>):
> Firefox is listed as a dependency, I haven't dug through to find out why
> yet. The description confirms firefox gets installed with pytrainer, but
> can anyone confirm if it gets removed when removing pytrainer? I would
> imagine it doesn't due to many other dependencies, if that's the case
> then this is not a bug.

The dependency is "iceweasel|firefox|abrowser". Indeed, I wonder why
this dependency is there.

The changelog is unclear about this. It apparently got added when Fiz
Vazquez (CC'ed, please keep CC list) was maintaining the package for
Ubuntu (in a private repo?).

The reason is probably the same rationale than having
/usr/bin/pytrainer as a wrapper:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox python /usr/bin/pytr

Other pytrainer Debian package maintainers, do you have a clue? I'm
tempted to drop that wrapper (it causes a lintian warning about not
having a manpage for "pytr"). I suspect the need to be able to use
some Firefox libraries but I'm not sure that such a hack is the right
way to do things.