Bug 1896259 - firefox package recommends package not in fedora
Summary: firefox package recommends package not in fedora
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 33
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-11-10 07:57 UTC by Mattias Ellert
Modified: 2021-11-30 16:45 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-11-30 16:45:53 UTC
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Description Mattias Ellert 2020-11-10 07:57:25 UTC
Description of problem:

# LANG=C dnf repoquery --whatrecommends mozilla-openh264
Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:45 ago on Tue Nov 10 08:42:07 2020.
firefox-0:82.0.2-5.fc33.x86_64

The mozilla-openh264 package is in the fedora-cisco-openh264 repository

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

firefox-0:82.0.2-5.fc33.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf update
2. See the message

Installing weak dependencies:
 mozilla-openh264      x86_64   2.1.1-1.fc33      fedora-cisco-openh264   433 k

3. Press N at the "Is this ok [y/N]: " prompt - because it is not OK.

Actual results:

Update of package from Fedora tries to install package not from Fedora

Expected results:

No such thing should happen

Additional info:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_package_dependencies

"All package dependencies (build-time or runtime, regular, weak or otherwise) MUST ALWAYS be satisfiable within the official Fedora repositories."

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2020-11-10 08:08:21 UTC
See Bug 1894217 for details.

Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2020-11-10 16:12:20 UTC
fedora-cisco-openh264 is an official Fedora repository. It is enabled by default.

We also have totem, which Recommends the openh264 GStreamer plugin. More discussion in https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/84.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 17:13:50 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 33 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 33 on 2021-11-30.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '33'.

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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2021-11-30 16:45:53 UTC
Fedora 33 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2021-11-30. Fedora 33 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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