[lucid] icedtea-gcjwebplugin is removed on upgrade, should do something graceful to keep plugin working

[bcrowell]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Before upgrading from Karmic to Lucid beta 2, I had the icedtea6-plugin package installed and selected, and java applets were working in firefox. After upgrading, icedtea6-plugin was deselected, and no java plugin showed up in firefox when I entered about:plugins in the URL bar. To make java applets work again, I had to do an apt-get install icedtea6-plugin to reselect the package. The package was still cached on my system; it just needed to be reselected manually.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.134
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 11 15:19:54 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Can you please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/* ?

[bcrowell (launchpadcrowell07)]

Thanks, Michael Vogt , for your reply. Here is a tarball of those files.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for the logs. The reason it got removed is that it got removed from 10.04:

$ rmadison icedtea-gcjwebplugin
icedtea-gcjwebplugin | 1.0-0ubuntu5 | hardy/universe | source, amd64, i386
icedtea-gcjwebplugin | 1.0-0ubuntu8 | hardy-updates/universe | source, amd64, i386
icedtea-gcjwebplugin | 1.0-1ubuntu4 | intrepid/universe | source, amd64, i386
icedtea-gcjwebplugin | 1.0-1ubuntu4 | jaunty/universe | source, amd64, i386
icedtea-gcjwebplugin | 1.0-1ubuntu4 | karmic/universe | source, amd64, i386

It looks like it was replaced iwth icedtea-plugin without provided a upgrade path.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The only plugin that got removed is icedtea-gcjwebpluin. the icedtea6-plugin is upgraded according to your logs. So this is either a firefox or a icedtea6-plugin bug. And please ignore comment #4, I misread that the plugin was gone entirely, when it was just not available.

[bcrowell (launchpadcrowell07)]

Thanks, Michael Vogt, for looking into this. I'm going to change the bug so that it's listed as a bug in icedtea6-plugin.

[bcrowell (launchpadcrowell07)]

Is not actually a bug in openjdk-6. The problem only relates to the *-plugin packages that provide java applet support for web browsers. Not filing a bug against icedtea-gcjwebplugin, because icedtea-gcjwebplugin appears to be defunct, so presumably nobody is watching and fixing bugs on that package.

[bcrowell (launchpadcrowell07)]

Okay, that didn't work. Comment #7 is my explanation of my attempt to switch this to being filed as a bug against icedtea6-plugin. However, after I did that, the web interface came up with this message:

'icedtea6-plugin' is a binary package. This bug has been assigned to its source package 'openjdk-6' instead.

I'm not sure at this point how to bring this bug to the attention of people who are actually handling bug reports for the plugin aspects of java...?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

well, we would have to re-introduce this as an empty package i lucid, but as this is the very old gcjwebplugin I doubt it is worth it.
proposing to close this report as won't fix

[dino99 (9d9)]

Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago