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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #714878,
regarding iceweasel: how to use java (obsolete README.Debian)
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 17.0.7esr-1~deb7u1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
README.Debian has instructions for installing java that do not apply to the
current version.
None of the packages referred to are even present in wheezy.
It would be very helpful to have a discussion of what to do to activate java,
or what the choices are.
I am trying to get java working, but there doesn't seem to be any official
guidance in the README
or in the package dependencies. I found a lot of answers on the internet, but
many are obsolete
and for the rest I don't know which is considered the proper way (e.g., some
suggest manually creating
a symlink).
Thanks.
-- Package-specific info:
-- Extensions information
Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled
Name: gTranslate
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{aff87fa2-a58e-4edd-b852-0a20203c1e17}.xpi
Status: enabled
-- Plugins information
Name: Shockwave Flash (11,2,202,291)
Location: /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
Package: flashplayer-mozilla
Status: enabled
Name: Skype Buttons for Kopete
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/skypebuttons.so
Package: kopete
Status: enabled
-- Addons package information
ii flashplayer-mo 3:11.2.202.2 amd64 Macromedia Flash Player.
ii iceweasel 17.0.7esr-1~ amd64 Web browser based on Firefox
ii kopete 4:4.8.4-1+b1 amd64 instant messaging and chat applic
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 4.3.2
ii fontconfig 2.9.0-7.1
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2
ii libnspr4 2:4.9.2-1
ii libnspr4-0d 2:4.9.2-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5
ii procps 1:3.3.3-3
ii xulrunner-17.0 17.0.7esr-1~deb7u1
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii fonts-stix [otf-stix] 1.1.0-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u1
pn mozplugger <none>
Versions of packages xulrunner-17.0 depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.25-4
ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libcairo2 1.12.2-3
ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100.2-1
ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.19-stable-3
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1
ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2
ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.2-4
ii libjpeg8 8d-1
ii libmozjs17d 17.0.7esr-1~deb7u1
ii libnspr4 2:4.9.2-1
ii libnss3 2:3.14.3-1
ii libnss3-1d 2:3.14.3-1
ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
ii libpixman-1-0 0.26.0-4
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5
ii libvpx1 1.1.0-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.7-1+deb7u1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.3-1+deb7u1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
Versions of packages xulrunner-17.0 suggests:
ii libcanberra0 0.28-6
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.5-2
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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