Bug#748342: iceweasel: please keep sandbox code for EME/CDM DRM plugins out of Iceweasel builds

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Fri May 16 11:39:37 UTC 2014


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:34:38PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Freitag, 16. Mai 2014, 20:22:09 schrieb Mike Hommey:
> > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:38:46PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > Package: iceweasel
> > > Version: 29.0.1-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > > Tags: upstream
> > > 
> > > Dear Maintainer,
> > > 
> > > Mozilla unfortunately chose to support external DRM plugins by an
> > > opensource sandbox for EME/CDM plugins[1][2].
> > > 
> > > Please keep this open source sandbox code out of Iceweasel builds once it
> > > becomes available. As for reasons to do so please see [2][3].
> > > 
> > > Feel free to close the bug report with a statement of your intent to do
> > > so.
> > > 
> > > If its not possible to remove the code easily, please at least disable it.
> > 
> > The code is not even in http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/, which
> > means it's more than 3 months away from possibly reaching unstable.
> > 
> > There is nothing to disable, nothing to remove, nothing to be seen
> > regarding what it's going to be.
> > 
> > Please refrain from using the *Bug* tracking system for currently
> > entirely hypothetical bugs.
> 
> Mozilla Foundation is about to introduce a new way to load proprietary and 
> potentially unsafe code within the browser.
> 
> To me thats a bug.
> 
> Thats why I open one with upstream as well[1].
> 
> Well, I will reopen this bug or open a new one should this code arrives within 
> Firefox.

BTW, have you filed a bug to remove the firmware loader from the linux
kernel yet?

Mike



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