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commit 84cb36ea9322b2cfb6a87db18b9d51f38908fb17 Author: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> Date: Sun Mar 12 18:59:11 2017 +0100 profiles: Mask www-plugins/nspluginwrapper for removal Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609258
Since this package is being removed, it no longer blocks stabilisation.
The removal of nspluginwrapper might be problematic for one specific (but, for us, sadly very important) application: icaclient. This is the Cytrix "remote desktop" interface that allows us to work from home. Would icaclient still work from the browser without nsplugin? I'm not sure to be honest. I can also just copy the current nspluginwrapper ebuild into my local repository, but for other users the removal (thus icaclient breakage) might come at a very inconvenient time. One example is my wife: for her as a medical doctor icaclient is crucial during night and weekend shifts. At those times, whenever a crisis occurs it's very important that icaclient does work. So I hope this can be considered.
The '30 days until removal' window is approaching. Could someone please comment on what I said regarding icaclient? It's very important. Thanks.
(In reply to Mark (voidzero) from comment #8) > The removal of nspluginwrapper might be problematic for one specific (but, > for us, sadly very important) application: icaclient. This is the Cytrix > "remote desktop" interface that allows us to work from home. > > Would icaclient still work from the browser without nsplugin? I'm not sure > to be honest. > > I can also just copy the current nspluginwrapper ebuild into my local > repository, but for other users the removal (thus icaclient breakage) might > come at a very inconvenient time. One example is my wife: for her as a > medical doctor icaclient is crucial during night and weekend shifts. At > those times, whenever a crisis occurs it's very important that icaclient > does work. > > So I hope this can be considered. I understand your conundrum, but the code is extremely smelly and should go. Anyhow, plugins in browsers are a lost cause, all major browsers are deprecating or have already removed support for plugins, hence the general use case isn't applicable anymore. I've looked at the icaclient ebuilds and nowhere does it state a dependency on nspluginwrapper in RDEPEND. If that is so, then it's a bug, but given that the package seems maintained, I doubt that. I recommend you copy the ebuild to a local repo.
> I understand your conundrum, but the code is extremely smelly and should go. > Anyhow, plugins in browsers are a lost cause, all major browsers are > deprecating or have already removed support for plugins, hence the general > use case isn't applicable anymore. I see. Alright, fair point. > I've looked at the icaclient ebuilds and nowhere does it state a dependency > on nspluginwrapper in RDEPEND. If that is so, then it's a bug, but given > that the package seems maintained, I doubt that. I recommend you copy the > ebuild to a local repo. I think the USE flag is 'nsplugin', in IUSE. Might I be mistaking then; is this something unrelated?
(In reply to Mark (voidzero) from comment #11) > > I've looked at the icaclient ebuilds and nowhere does it state a dependency > > on nspluginwrapper in RDEPEND. If that is so, then it's a bug, but given > > that the package seems maintained, I doubt that. I recommend you copy the > > ebuild to a local repo. > > I think the USE flag is 'nsplugin', in IUSE. Might I be mistaking then; is > this something unrelated? Indeed the nsplugin USE flag references that in pkg_postinst. CC'ing PolyC as he's the maintainer of icaclient. @PolyC: any input? The following code: if use amd64 && [[ -f ${old_plugin} ]] ; then local wrapper="/usr/bin/nspluginwrapper" if [[ -x ${wrapper} ]] ; then einfo "Removing npica.so from wrapper." ${wrapper} -r ${old_plugin} fi fi Seems like it relies on nspluginwrapper implicitly.
icaclient no longer needs nspluginwrapper to work. Citrix people fortunately release 64bit versions of their plugin for quite a while already. The code cited by David merely tries to remove any references to nspluginwrapper in case it's still installed. Once nspluginwrapper ebuild is gone, the cited code can also go from icaclient ebuilds.
(In reply to Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) from comment #13) > icaclient no longer needs nspluginwrapper to work. Citrix people fortunately > release 64bit versions of their plugin for quite a while already. > The code cited by David merely tries to remove any references to > nspluginwrapper in case it's still installed. > Once nspluginwrapper ebuild is gone, the cited code can also go from > icaclient ebuilds. So, no problems there. That's great to hear. Thanks, folks!
commit 5f7b51de489ef7a1be9d886ee4ff61ea4c329613 Author: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Apr 17 09:48:46 2017 +0200 www-plugins/nspluginwrapper: Remove from tree
