[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#765537: chromium: Silent change: java plugin no longer works

[Peter Chubb]

Package: chromium
Version: 38.0.2125.101-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

     After a routine apt-get upgrade, chromium java support stopped.
     There was no changelog entry to suggest this would happen --
     apparently upstream has removed support for the NPAPI that the
     java plugin uses.

     I'd appreciate at least a changelog entry, or a warning or
     something, so that I could avoid upgrading chromium beyond
     version 37.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
armhf

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  libasound2           1.0.28-1
ii  libc6                2.19-11
ii  libcairo2            1.12.16-5
ii  libcap2              1:2.24-6
ii  libcups2             1.7.5-4
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.8-2
ii  libexpat1            2.1.0-6
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.42.0-2
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.12.0-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.25-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b        0.9.35-1
ii  libjpeg8             8d1-2
ii  libnspr4             2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnspr4-0d          2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnss3              2:3.17.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.8-2
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.8-2
ii  libpci3              1:3.2.1-3
ii  libspeechd2          0.8-6
ii  libspeex1            1.2~rc1.2-1
ii  libsrtp0             1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1
ii  libstdc++6           4.9.1-16
ii  libudev1             215-5+b1
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.14-1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-2
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.1-2
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.4-1
ii  libxml2              2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.4.2-1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.8-1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.28-2+b1
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.2-1
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.1

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
ii  chromium-inspector  38.0.2125.101-2
pn  chromium-l10n       <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/chromium/default changed:
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so"


-- no debconf information