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Bug 1896259

Summary: firefox package recommends package not in fedora
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
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Version: 33CC: elxreno, erack, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, kai-engert-fedora, klember, mcatanza, pjasicek, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, stransky
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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.