firefox, chromium-browser are not merely a transitional packages

[Nathan Teodosio]

They not only install the corresponding snap but also at least have some hooks to update-alternatives and also provide www-browser, x-www-browser, gnome-www-browser. As such, removing the package might result in installation of something preposterous such as wslu to satisfy such a meta-package dependency, as reported in LP:2060898.

The packages' description might lead one to remove them expecting no side effects:

> Description-en: Transitional package - firefox -> firefox snap
> This is a transitional dummy package. It can safely be removed.
> .
> firefox is now replaced by the firefox snap.

So I suggest we change it.

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[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

This is sitting in the sponsorship queue doing nothing with a valid debdiff to update at least chromium's info. Furthermore, it's approaching SRU territory and the bug needs to be formatted as such. What's going on here?

I'd certainly put this on a higher priority or this is just going to rot.

[Amin Bandali (bandali)]

For firefox, the changes clarifying this have been merged into the oracular branch of the repo:

https://git.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/firefox/commit/?id=f6181660b1cd3f512483a16684bee613e3f20939
https://git.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/firefox/commit/?id=a36439f33f72d840d16b0858e12b233062564f7e

Yet to be finalized and uploaded - perhaps along with my proposed changes for LP: #2064819.