Bug#929362: icedtea-web: IcedTea plugin is gone, and Java applets no longer load in Konqueror web browser and co

[Milko Krachounov]

Source: icedtea-web
Version: 1.6.2-3.1+deb9u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Since version 1.6.2-3.1+deb9u1 of the icedtea-web source package in 
Stretch,
the icedtea-plugin is no longer built. As a result, NPAPI supporting 
browsers,
which include Konqueror which is included in Stretch (and also any third
party browsers such as SeaMonkey and Pale Moon) can no longer load Java
applets. As a result, after upgrading to 1.6.2-3.1+deb9u1 we can no longer
manage a certain batch of hardware requiring such (and that appears to
be the only change in this new release).

In addition, 1.6.2-3.1 has been removed from mirrors, and apt defaults to
deleting /var/cache/apt/archives, so we cannot downgrade (SURPRISING NEW
BEHAVIOURS ALL AROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.9
   APT prefers stable-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)