debian: lead webhttrack browser dep with chromium to dodge firefox-esr autoremoval#436
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webhttrack's "firefox-esr | chromium | www-browser" made the httrack source inherit firefox-esr's autoremoval clock: britney keys off the first alternative of a disjunction, so every firefox-esr RC bug (currently #1127569) dragged httrack toward removal even though webhttrack stays installable via the other alternatives. Lead with chromium instead. lintian requires a real package as the first alternative (virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends), so the virtual www-browser cannot go first; chromium is real, keeps the dep lintian-clean, and makes britney track chromium rather than the RC-bug-prone firefox-esr. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Xavier Roche <roche@httrack.com>
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The Debian tracker has httrack scheduled for autoremoval on 22 July 2026: "depends (transitively) on firefox-esr, affected by #1127569". That transitive dependency comes only from webhttrack's
firefox-esr | chromium | www-browser, and webhttrack stays installable through any of the alternatives. The mark is an artifact of britney keying off the first alternative of a disjunction: with firefox-esr first, the whole httrack source inherits firefox-esr's removal clock every time Firefox catches an RC bug.Leading with
chromiummakes britney track chromium instead of the RC-bug-prone firefox-esr. The virtualwww-browsercan't go first: lintian requires a real package as the first alternative (virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends), so chromium is the lintian-clean way to displace firefox-esr from the front. apt still resolves a concrete browser the same way in practice.