Allow other browsers as dependency

Agreed. Not everyone wants to have Firefox installed on their system just for the sake of using Java plugin

Attached debdiff add chromium-browser as an alternative, or xulrunner to keep compatibility with previous behavior. As I'm not a xul/firefox expert, the last one is maybe not necessary.

Please don't add xulrunner-2.0 since there's only one browser left that uses it. Can't we solve this (for oneiric and on) by making the NPAPI capable browsers provide a virtual package that these plugins can depend on?

Why has this been marked incomplete (meaning the *report* is incomplete)? Comment #4 suggests that the fix should be revisited for oneiric. But still the suggested fix should be pushed into natty!

The virtual package sound like a good idea for oneiric. But for natty, we should add others browsers not to force people to have firefox to use Java. I updated the debdiff.

Looking at this, I'm not even sure why we'd depend on a web browser at all.
Shouldn't it be done in a similar way as for flashplugin-installer where the web browsers are suggests instead of recommends/depends?

Julien's debdiff looks fine for a natty SRU, I added a natty task and uploaded to the natty queue.

Note that as per the SRU rules this needs to be fixed in oneiric before it can get to natty-updates. Please report this bug to Debian and proposed dropping the Depends to a Suggests:

Unsubscribing sponsors, as there currently is nothing more to upload.

please wait until later this week for the 1.1 release (see bug #767144)

This bug was fixed in the package icedtea-web - 1.1~20110530-1ubuntu1

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icedtea-web (1.1~20110530-1ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Regenerate the control file.
  * Add other browsers as an alternative to firefox depends. LP: #766559.

icedtea-web (1.1~20110530-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update to hg 20110530, taken from the icedtea-web-1.1 release branch.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 30 May 2011 22:25:14 +0200

Accepted icedtea-web into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Just tested it from natty-proposed, curious if there's any reason at all to have a dependency on any sort of browser. I personally don't want Chromium on my machine; all I want is the icedtea plugin.

This SRU seems to be lacking the SRU justification required at

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

This bug was fixed in the package icedtea-web - 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1

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icedtea-web (1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/rules:
   - Add other browsers as an alternative to firefox depends.
     LP: #766559
 -- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:51:07 +0200