nspluginwrapper should be recommended or, even better, suggested

[Christophe Drevet]

Using :
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

acroread:
  Installé : 9.4.7-1oneiric1
  Candidat : 9.4.7-1oneiric1
 Table de version :
 *** 9.4.7-1oneiric1 0
         90 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise/partner amd64 Packages
         99 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What happens:
We uses Adobe Reader from the partner repository. However, we don't want to use the firefox plugin to view PDF inline. We cannot remove the nspluginwrapper without breaking acroread package.

What would be nice:
If nspluginwrapper and nspluginviewer were suggested or recommended, we would be able to do that.

Thanks for considering this.

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

dr4Ke,
1) the up-to-date acroread version is 9.5.3;
2) the newest version in Ubuntu repositories is 9.5.1 (and it has broken dependencies, see bug #990761).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, a new acroread release (0.9.4) is available for update, could you give it a try and tell us if the problem persists?
If you still have this bug please set back the status to "new"
thanks

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

acroread/9.5.4-1quantal1, from debian/control:

Package: acroread
Architecture: i386 amd64
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
 acroread-bin,
 nspluginwrapper [amd64]
Description: Adobe Reader

Confirmed.

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

Alternatively, you can disable the plugin in Firefox itself.

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

Maybe it would be even better to put the Adobe Reader Mozilla plugin in a separate package.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported