Plugin finder service

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:15:07PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Guido Günther]
> > O.k. so it's probably better to skip this until Debian can make use
> > of this. Thanks for the prompt feedback!
> 
> Why skip it for now?  I can only see advantages of adding it, by
> making it possible to automatically locate plugin packages for a given
> mime type, while the cost is a bit work and a few bytes in the
> Packages file.  What disadvantages do you see by adding it?
> 
> > I just noticed that iceweasel's #484010 requests plugin finder
> > support in iceweasel already.
> 
> How strange.  I see the plugin installation dialog showing up with
> iceweasel version 3.0.6-3 in Lenny.  My Squeeze test machine is
> currently being installed, so I can not verfiy that it work there, but
> found it strange if it was removed from iceweasel in Squeeze.

It was not. But the plugin finder in both versions uses the upstream
one, that doesn't use the information available in packages, nor allows
to install packages.

Mike