The firefox-3.5 package depends on firefox-3.0 and all of its dependencies because of ubufox.
Bug #401077 reported by
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This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #365965: [MASTER] installing firefox pulls in ubufox and all gnome depends through apturl.
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubufox
The latest version of Firefox 3.5 has a packaging problem. By default, firefox-3.5 package tries to install the ubufox package, too, even though it is only listed as a "recommends". The problem is ubufox is still built specifically for firefox-3.0, and by doing this the firefox-3.5 package also installs the firefox-3.0, firefox-
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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported 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.