Re: no java plugin for Wheezy browsers?
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:22:51 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> During the spate of upgrades that I installed on my Wheezy systems over
> the past few days I noticed that the icedtea6-plugin package had been
> removed. There's only one site at which I use a Java plugin for my
> browsers. I'm not going to use the non-free or contrib repositories on
> these systems, so the Sun Java stuff won't do for me.
If the plugin package has been taken off, you will have to wait for its
restoration.
> Would anyone know whether or not a replacement for (or alternative to)
> this plugin is slated for arrival in testing main repository any time
> soon? I checked the Debian Java dev list and didn't see any information
> about it at all.
At the changelog for openjdk-6 we can read that the build for NetX and
the plugin has been stopped:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6_6b18-1.8.7-5/changelog
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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