[Bug 1992688] Re: firefox deb not installed

[Brian Murray]

I tested an Ubuntu 22.04 daily build today and can confirm that firefox
deb is installed and `x-www-browser www.ubuntu.com` works.

bdmurray at bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ cat /var/log/installer/media-info 
Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230621)bdmurray at bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ apt-cache policy ubuntu-desktop
ubuntu-desktop:
  Installed: 1.481.1
  Candidate: 1.481.1
  Version table:
 *** 1.481.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.481 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
bdmurray at bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ which x-www-browser
/usr/bin/x-www-browser
bdmurray at bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


** Description changed:

  Impact
  ------
- Applications with x-www-browser to launch Firefox will not work on a freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04 system as the firefox deb is not installed.
+ Applications with x-www-browser configured to launch Firefox will not work on a freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04 system as the firefox deb is not installed.
  
  Test Plan
  ---------
  1) Install Ubuntu 22.04.2 using an amd64 desktop iso image
  2) Open a terminal
  3) Run x-www-browser www.ubuntu.com
  4) Observe a command not found message which recommends installing firefox
  
  Where problems could occur
  --------------------------
  
  Other Info
  ----------
  I tested an upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 and the firefox deb was not removed during the upgrade process so upgrades are a non-issue.
  
  Original Description
  --------------------
  Bug 1964036 leads me to believe that the firefox deb provides some important functionality (the firefox favourite icon in the gnome shell dock) but there is nothing that would require the deb to be installed (it is not seeded nor has an rdep) and the package description indicates that it can be safely removed. Is there some important functionality that it provides?
  
  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.10.8
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 5.19.0-19.19-generic 5.19.7
  Uname: Linux 5.19.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckMismatches: ./boot/grub/grub.cfg
  CasperMD5CheckResult: fail
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Oct 12 11:30:46 2022
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-27 (167 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-10-12 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

** Description changed:

  Impact
  ------
- Applications with x-www-browser configured to launch Firefox will not work on a freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04 system as the firefox deb is not installed.
+ Applications which use x-www-browser to launch a browser will not work on a freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04 system as the firefox deb (which provides x-www-browser) is not installed.
  
  Test Plan
  ---------
  1) Install Ubuntu 22.04.2 using an amd64 desktop iso image
  2) Open a terminal
  3) Run x-www-browser www.ubuntu.com
  4) Observe a command not found message which recommends installing firefox
+ 
+ Installing of a daily build of Ubuntu 22.04 with -proposed enabled and
+ ubuntu-desktop will not exhibit the above problem.
  
  Where problems could occur
  --------------------------
  
  Other Info
  ----------
  I tested an upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 and the firefox deb was not removed during the upgrade process so upgrades are a non-issue.
  
  Original Description
  --------------------
  Bug 1964036 leads me to believe that the firefox deb provides some important functionality (the firefox favourite icon in the gnome shell dock) but there is nothing that would require the deb to be installed (it is not seeded nor has an rdep) and the package description indicates that it can be safely removed. Is there some important functionality that it provides?
  
  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.10.8
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 5.19.0-19.19-generic 5.19.7
  Uname: Linux 5.19.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckMismatches: ./boot/grub/grub.cfg
  CasperMD5CheckResult: fail
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Oct 12 11:30:46 2022
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-27 (167 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-10-12 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

** Description changed:

  Impact
  ------
  Applications which use x-www-browser to launch a browser will not work on a freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04 system as the firefox deb (which provides x-www-browser) is not installed.
  
  Test Plan
  ---------
  1) Install Ubuntu 22.04.2 using an amd64 desktop iso image
  2) Open a terminal
  3) Run x-www-browser www.ubuntu.com
  4) Observe a command not found message which recommends installing firefox
  
  Installing of a daily build of Ubuntu 22.04 with -proposed enabled and
- ubuntu-desktop will not exhibit the above problem.
+ ubuntu-desktop version 1.481.1 will not exhibit the above problem.
  
  Where problems could occur
  --------------------------
  
  Other Info
  ----------
  I tested an upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 and the firefox deb was not removed during the upgrade process so upgrades are a non-issue.
  
  Original Description
  --------------------
  Bug 1964036 leads me to believe that the firefox deb provides some important functionality (the firefox favourite icon in the gnome shell dock) but there is nothing that would require the deb to be installed (it is not seeded nor has an rdep) and the package description indicates that it can be safely removed. Is there some important functionality that it provides?
  
  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.10.8
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 5.19.0-19.19-generic 5.19.7
  Uname: Linux 5.19.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckMismatches: ./boot/grub/grub.cfg
  CasperMD5CheckResult: fail
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Oct 12 11:30:46 2022
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-27 (167 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-10-12 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-jammy
** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-jammy

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