Bug#268655: epiphany-browser: Please use user-agent branding to note debian package version in ua string

Erich Schubert Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org>, 268655@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:44:14 +0200


Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 1.2.8-1
Severity: minor

Epiphany should have a branded UA, just like Mozilla and Galeon
(and hopefully many other) do.

Example user agents:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Galeon/1.3.17 (Debian package 1.3.17-1)

Please talk to the mozilla folks which type of branding is preferred.
http://www.mozilla.org/build/revised-user-agent-strings.html

I don't think the branding as used by Mozilla Browser is optimal.
I think the debian branding of Galeon is done better.
(Some parsers might interpret the mozilla-browser branding as
"mozilla-based browser named Debian")
Epiphany branding could be done similar, considering the common origin
of Epiphany and Galeon probably the same patch can be reused.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1+sws+acpi
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  debconf                   1.4.32         Debian configuration management sy
ii  gconf2                    2.7.91.1-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme          1.2.3-1        GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-3        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-4        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-6        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]    0.2.34-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgcc1                   1:3.4.1-7      GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4               2.7.91.1-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11               1.2.0-6        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.6-2        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0         0.2.1-3        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0               2.7.91-1       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.7.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.7.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.7.91-3       The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11               1.0.16-7       GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0             1.0-1          library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.9-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-9           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.5.2-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5                1:3.3.4-9      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtasn1-2                0.2.10-4       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-3       GNOME XML library
ii  mozilla-browser           2:1.7.2-4      The Mozilla Internet application s
ii  mozilla-psm               2:1.7.2-4      The Mozilla Internet application s
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-8       A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-7    compression library - runtime

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