Bug#714878: iceweasel: how to use java (obsolete README.Debian)

[Ross Boylan]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 17.0.7esr-1~deb7u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

README.Debian has instructions for installing java that do not apply to the
current version.
None of the packages referred to are even present in wheezy.

It would be very helpful to have a discussion of what to do to activate java,
or what the choices are.
I am trying to get java working, but there doesn't seem to be any official
guidance in the README
or in the package dependencies.  I found a lot of answers on the internet, but
many are obsolete
and for the rest I don't know which is considered the proper way (e.g., some
suggest manually creating
a symlink).

Thanks.



-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

Name: gTranslate
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{aff87fa2-a58e-4edd-b852-0a20203c1e17}.xpi
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information
Name: Shockwave Flash (11,2,202,291)
Location: /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
Package: flashplayer-mozilla
Status: enabled

Name: Skype Buttons for Kopete
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/skypebuttons.so
Package: kopete
Status: enabled


-- Addons package information
ii  flashplayer-mo 3:11.2.202.2 amd64        Macromedia Flash Player.
ii  iceweasel      17.0.7esr-1~ amd64        Web browser based on Firefox
ii  kopete         4:4.8.4-1+b1 amd64        instant messaging and chat applic

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils         4.3.2
ii  fontconfig          2.9.0-7.1
ii  libc6               2.13-38
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libnspr4            2:4.9.2-1
ii  libnspr4-0d         2:4.9.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0        3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.2-5
ii  procps              1:3.3.3-3
ii  xulrunner-17.0      17.0.7esr-1~deb7u1

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.0-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u1
pn  mozplugger             <none>

Versions of packages xulrunner-17.0 depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.4.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.6-4
ii  libc6                     2.13-38
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.2-3
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.100.2-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.19-stable-3
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.10-2
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.2-4
ii  libjpeg8                  8d-1
ii  libmozjs17d               17.0.7esr-1~deb7u1
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.9.2-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.14.3-1
ii  libnss3-1d                2:3.14.3-1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  libpixman-1-0             0.26.0-4
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
ii  libvpx1                   1.1.0-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.7-1+deb7u1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.3-1+deb7u1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages xulrunner-17.0 suggests:
ii  libcanberra0  0.28-6
ii  libgnomeui-0  2.24.5-2

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