On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:59:28AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Last I knew, it still had
> > > serious security problems.
> 
> > Which ones?  I can't see anything in the BTS.
> 
> I wouldn't know them by bug number; previously though, the problem was that
> gcjwebplugin didn't have appropriate sandboxing.

Aaargh!!  That is fixed now, is it?

> > > (BTW, why does the plugin package need to have
> > > the upstream version number in its name?)
> 
> > It's a little weird.  The package that puts the plugin into firefox dir (via
> > symlink) is java-gcj-compat-plugin, but gcjwebplugin-4.1 contains the 
> > actualy
> > object.  I suppose when a few versions of gcjwebplugin-X.Y exist,
> > java-gcj-compat-plugin will decide which one is more suitable by changing 
> > the
> > dependency and the symlink.
> 
> That sounds like a terrible amount of complexity to me.  I can't imagine why
> it would ever be beneficial to carry more than one version of gcjwebplugin
> around in the archive at a time.

Agreed.  What do the maintainers think?

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