Bug#1104715: liferea: Tools -> Plugins menu item now broken and a privacy issue

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Paul,

On 05-05-2025 05:05, Paul Wise wrote:

This issue is fixed in upstream liferea 1.16-RC3 that merged the commit
above, but has been present since 1.12.2-1, which means that both
Debian stable and oldstable liferea need to be fixed too.

Since the freeze is close, I suggest installing the file from the
source package in plugins/plugin-list.json into /usr/share/liferea/
and then patching the plugin-installer.py to use a file:// URL instead.

1.16-RC3 is in experimental. Does using that solve the problem well enough? (It's not 100% clear on my first read of this report).

I have tested this fix by editing the files locally, all of the
functionality of the Plugins dialog works, including downloading
and installing not yet installed plugins.

Can you share what you changed in this bug report? Even if only for stable?

Paul

PS: liferea is in the debian namespace and I'm on LowThresholdNMU and LowThresholdAdoption. It's fine when others jump in.

OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature