Please remove firefox-launchpad-plugin binaries from the release pocket
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-launchpad-plugin (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
This package has been reported as not working for more than 6 years (bug #1502129).
I just verified in a 21.10 VM that indeed the search engines installed by the package are not picked up by firefox. At least one of the reasons is that firefox looks for addons only in /usr/lib/
Given that:
- the package is unmaintained (last update in 2012, almost 10 years ago)
- it has been known not to work for 6+ years
- with bug #1962021, the firefox packages in jammy are becoming "transitional packages" that install the firefox snap, and the firefox snap won't be allowed to look for extensions in /usr/lib on the host system
I request that the binary package be removed from the jammy release pocket.
Removing packages from jammy: launchpad- plugin 0.5 in jammy launchpad- plugin 0.5 in jammy amd64 launchpad- plugin 0.5 in jammy arm64 launchpad- plugin 0.5 in jammy armhf launchpad- plugin 0.5 in jammy i386 launchpad- plugin 0.5 in jammy ppc64el launchpad- plugin 0.5 in jammy riscv64 launchpad- plugin 0.5 in jammy s390x
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Comment: Ubuntu-specific, unmaintained non-functional for years; LP: #1965742
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