[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#751956: Bug#751956: chromium-browser: Upgrading chromium-browser to 35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1 broke java and flash plugins

[Heikki Levanto]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 01:46:11PM +0200, Giovanni Harting wrote:
> That's a duplicate of #751587, install pepper flash and it should work
> again.

Thanks!  Two small problems:


1) Pepper flash seems not to be in debian/wheezy:

$ apt-cache search pepper
burgerspace - Avoid evil foodstuffs and make burgers
libjs-jquery-ui-theme-pepper-grinder - Pepper Grinder theme for jQuery UI

Where is one supposed to get it?


2) Installing a new flash player will not help with Java breaking in the same 
upgrade.


Perhaps this is a known issue for you Debian guys, but it breaks things for
many users. I would have appreciated some kind of warning during the install
process, and a way to back off from that upgrade.


> 
> 2014-06-18 11:24 GMT+02:00 Heikki Levanto <heikki at lsd.dk>:
> 
> > Package: chromium-browser
> > Version: 35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > When upgrading my machine (regular apt-get upgrade), I got a new chromium:
> >    chromium-browser:amd64 (35.0.1916.114-1~deb7u2, 35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1)
> > Both flash and java plugins stopped working. Chromium tells me that I have
> > to
> > install a plugin.
> >
> > chrome:plugins shows no trace of these plugins, only lists Chromoting
> > Viewer
> > (Disabled). Both plugins worked fine before the upgrade.
> >
> > Both plugins work on IceWeasel, which makes me think that the problem is
> > with
> > Chromium itself, and not the plugins.
> >
> > I have tried to run update-flashplugin-nonfree, made no difference.
> >
> > This happened on two separate (but similar) machines, which makes me think
> > that the problem is not isolated to my machine, but is in the chromium
> > itself.
> >
> >
> > I hope I have given enough information. If not, feel free to ask for more.
> >
> >
> > $ apt-cache policy chromium chromium-browser flashplugin-nonfree
> > icedtea-plugin
> > chromium:
> >   Installed: 35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1
> >   Candidate: 35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1
> >   Version table:
> >  *** 35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1 0
> >         500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
> >         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >      34.0.1847.116-1~deb7u1 0
> >         500 http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
> > chromium-browser:
> >   Installed: 35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1
> >   Candidate: 35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1
> >   Version table:
> >  *** 35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1 0
> >         500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
> >         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >      34.0.1847.116-1~deb7u1 0
> >         500 http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
> > flashplugin-nonfree:
> >   Installed: 1:3.2
> >   Candidate: 1:3.2
> >   Version table:
> >  *** 1:3.2 0
> >         500 http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/contrib amd64 Packages
> >         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> > icedtea-plugin:
> >   Installed: 1.4-3~deb7u2
> >   Candidate: 1.4-3~deb7u2
> >   Version table:
> >  *** 1.4-3~deb7u2 0
> >         500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
> >         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >      1.3.2-1 0
> >         500 http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
> >
> >
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 7.5
> >   APT prefers stable
> >   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > Foreign Architectures: i386
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> >
> > Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on:
> > ii  chromium  35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1
> >
> > chromium-browser recommends no packages.
> >
> > chromium-browser suggests no packages.
> >
> > -- no debconf information
> >
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> >

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Heikki Levanto   "In Murphy We Turst"     heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk