During install mozilla-thunderbird recommends mozilla-firefox, but the package is called firefox in Ubuntu

[Scott Kitterman]

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

Recommended packages for mozilla-thunderbird has not been changed to match the Ubuntu naming convention for Firefox.

$ sudo apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  example-content
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  myspell-en-us
Suggested packages:
  mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind mozilla-thunderbird-inspector
  mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mozilla-thunderbird myspell-en-us

This is during a new installation of Thunderbird on Feisty.

[Alex Latchford (alex.latchford)]

Hello Scott,

Thank you for the bug report, I can confirm this on Edgy and as it probably hasn't changed much in Feisty I am going to flag it as confirmed. As packages.ubuntu.com it should be named just 'firefox'.

Hopefully it should be repackaged when Mr Sack gets around to it.

Thanks again, Alex.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Yes, the wrong Suggest: should definitly be fixed.

Taking the bug for that.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

will fix this on next update ... going to state: 'In Progress'

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

mozilla-thunderbird (1.5.0.10-0ubuntu3) feisty; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: use --disable-strip in configure to make noopt effective;
    add -g to OPTFLAGS even for noopt; dbgsym packages can now be generated
    (LP#101923).
  * debian/control: fix outdated Suggest entry to firefox (LP# 82805)
  * debian/mozilla-thunderbird-restart-required.update-notifier,
    debian/mozilla-thunderbird.install, debian/mozilla-thunderbird.postinst:
    install restart-required hook for "restart required on update2 notification
    (LP#90624).
  * debian/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop: support gnome startup notification,
    contributed by John Vivirito <email address hidden> (LP#11463).
  * 77_ubuntu-look-and-feel-report-a-bug-menuitem.dpatch: add 'Report a bug ...'
    menu entry, which invokes /usr/bin/ubuntu-bug -pmozilla-thunderbird

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:40:00 +0100