Minecraft.deb - broken dependency on libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 when installing in Ubuntu 26.04

The Minecraft.deb file has a dependency on the package libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0, but it appears as unavailable on the latest Ubuntu 26.04 release. The package appears to have been renamed to libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (with an added dash) in Ubuntu 26.04, and the user may not notice an issue if they had minecraft-launcher installed prior to upgrading in place from Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04. On new installations of Ubuntu 26.04, installing the Minecraft.deb file will fail unless the user manually unpacks and repacks the file updating the dependency name.

To fix this, the deb package must specify libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 and libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0` as interchangeable dependencies.

Below on a system updated from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 where minecraft was previously installed , the diverging package names can be seen. This causes libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 to be held back until the package minecraft-launcher is uninstalled. If the launcher is uninstalled and apt autoremove is run, the older package version may be removed and prevent the launcher from being reinstalled again later.

$ apt list --installed |grep libgdk-pixbuf

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0/resolute,now 2.44.5+dfsg-4ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0/resolute,now 2.44.5+dfsg-4ubuntu1 i386 [installed,automatic]
libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0/resolute,now 2.40.2-5build1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0/now 2.40.2-3build2 amd64 [installed,local]
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin/resolute,now 2.44.5+dfsg-4ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common/resolute,resolute,now 2.44.5+dfsg-4ubuntu1 all [installed,automatic]

Below is a control file modified to allow either form of the dependency to be used (used to get the package installed in a fresh instance of Ubuntu 26.04 while still supporting the older release 24.04):

Package: minecraft-launcher
Version: 2.1.3
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Petr Mrázek <petr@mojang.com>
Description: Official Minecraft Launcher
Homepage: https://minecraft.net/
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.0), wget | curl, ca-certificates
Depends: default-jre, libasound2 (>= 1.0.23), libatk-bridge2.0-0 (>= 2.5.3), libatk1.0-0 (>= 2.2.0), libatspi2.0-0 (>= 2.9.90), libc6 (>= 2.16), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libcups2 (>= 1.4.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.5.12), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.38), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgbm1 (>= 8.1~0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 | libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.4), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.18.9), libnspr4 (>= 2:4.9-2~), libnss3 (>= 2:3.22), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0) | libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.8.0), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.3-1), libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxi6 (>= 2:1.2.99.4), libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.3), libxrender1, libxss1, libxtst6, libx11-xcb1, libxcb-dri3-0, libxcb1 (>= 1.9.2), libbz2-1.0, lsb-base (>= 4.1), xdg-utils (>= 1.0.2), wget, libcurl3 | libcurl4, libuuid1
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