Package: icedtea-netx Version: 1.4-3~deb7u2 Severity: normal When itweb-settings writes out a property to the deployment.properties file, and the equals character occurs in the property value string, itweb-settings escapes the character by prefixing it with a backslash. This may be right if Java code later reads this file (not being a Java programmer, I can't say for sure). But this file is (also?) read by the C++ code of the plugin itself, before Java is launched, in the source file plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc. I'm enough of a C++ programmer to see that this code does no inverse unescaping transformation; it gets the raw line using a straight iostream read and uses it as is, except for trimming whitespace from the edges.
As a consequence, trying to set the deployment.plugin.jvm.arguments property to -Dfoo.bar.BazSetting=on via itweb-settings fails to achieve the desired result, while adding the property manually without the escaping works. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.9 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.10.93.5 (SMP w/4 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 icedtea-netx depends on: ii icedtea-netx-common 1.4-3~deb7u2 ii openjdk-6-jre 6b36-1.13.8-1~deb7u1 icedtea-netx recommends no packages. icedtea-netx suggests no packages. -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.
