Comment 20 for bug 57161

I'm glad to see someone has posted this, and quite a while ago at that. It's *still* not fixed; I'm running feisty, and here is the story:

I wanted to install pidgin, the chat software previously known as gaim. Well, it's not in the repositories, go figure, so I compile it from source... no good, I didn't have SSL. Gee, shoulda looked at the ./configure output :)

OK, so I apt-get installed both libnspr4-dev and libnss3-dev. Both of these were a problem, because to do so it uninstalled firefox! How great is that? Again, I didn't look carefully, since I just assumed I wouldn't have any issues - all I did was install two dev versions of libs I already had.

Anyway, when I went to reinstall firefox, the conflict was clear:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firefox libnspr4 libnss3

I'm not good enough to fix these things ubuntu-wide, but maybe someone that is could just make firefox depend on either these libs *or* their -dev versions? I would imagine that the -dev would do the same stuff and more, and this shouldn't be a huge issue.