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Bug#921748: stretch-pu: package icedtea-web/1.6.2-3.1+deb9u1



On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 11:31:24AM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 21:03 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > This disables the browser plugin (which was broken due to the Firefox
> > Quantum changes), the equivalent change in sid was done in 1.7.1-1.
> 
> Unfortunately, we failed to spot that the plugin package gets pulled in
> by default on a fair amount of desktop installations (at the very
> least, LO -> default-jre -> default-java-plugin -> icedtea-8-plugin),
> and there were late reports of APT not handling the upgrade scenario
> well (specifically, refusing to touch the packages on a dist-upgrade).
> 
> We therefore decided not to include this update for now, until we can
> look at better fixes for the user experience.

Meh, I missed the Recommends in default-jre, I can prepare an update
for the next point release to remove it from there.

Cheers,
        Moritz


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