[Bug 361998] [NEW] Package ubuntu-restricted-extras should not depend on icedtea6-plugin [amd64] for Jaunty

Jesper de Jong jespdj at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 15 21:28:55 UTC 2009


Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: ubuntu-restricted-extras

The package ubuntu-restricted-extras depends on icedtea6-plugin for the
amd64 architecture.

The reason for this is most likely that until recently, there was no
64-bit browser plug-in for Sun Java, so that amd64 users had to use the
IcedTea plugin (and OpenJDK Java 6) to be able to run Java applets in
64-bit Firefox.

However, Jaunty contains Sun Java 6 update 13, which includes Sun's new
64-bit Java browser plug-in.

It is not necessary anymore to install icedtea6-plugin on amd64, and in
fact, the IcedTea plugin interferes with the Sun Java browser plug-in.

ubuntu-restricted-extras should depend on sun-java6-plugin instead of
icedtea6-plugin. (Note that ubuntu-restricted-extras already depends on
sun-java6-jre, so it will pull in Sun Java as well as OpenJDK Java -
users most likely do not need or want two variants of Java).

See also bug #231098

** Affects: ubuntu-restricted-extras (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Package ubuntu-restricted-extras should not depend on icedtea6-plugin [amd64] for Jaunty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361998
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