Bug#603412: iceweasel: "Addons package information" in bug reports contains full list of installed packages

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:25:56PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> reassign 603412 xulrunner-1.9.1
> found 603412 1.9.1.16-6
> affects 603412 xulrunner-2.0
> affects 603412 xulrunner-5.0
> affects 603412 iceweasel
> affects 603412 conkeror
> tags 603412 + patch
> thanks
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:16:05 +0100, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:27:04PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:02:51PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> >> > Package: iceweasel
> 
> Reassigning to the correct package with the first version I found
> according to #623839 and adding information about affected packages.
> 
> >> > The "Addons package information" section in bug reports contains a full
> >> > list of installed packages, rather than just addon-related packages.
> >> > See the example below, trimmed to just the beginning and end.
> >> 
> >> This is due to the component getting this information not working with
> >> the new extensions manager yet.
> 
> I do not have any extensions installed (conkeror_0.9.3+git110602-1
> here), but I still get the full list of packages as Josh or Helge
> Kreutzmann in:
> 
>   <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623839#20>
> 
> It seems the problem has nothing to do with xulrunner at all, but it is
> linked to `dpkg -l`, which defaults to list all the installed packages
> if no argument is given:

It has very much to do with xulrunner, though a small part can be due to
dpkg -l.

Mike