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[–] who@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The phrasing in that quote is unclear. It could be read to mean Debian 13 installs the stardict-gtk package and enables the bad plugin if you install stardict yourself, rather than meaning that any of this is included as part of the default Debian installation.

I think this would indeed happen if you installed stardict yourself, because the stardict package depends on stardict-gtk, which recommends the stardict-plugin package, and the recommends relationship is treated as a dependency by default.

The questions on my mind are:

  • Is stardict installed by default in a new Debian 13 installation, or does this only affect people who install it themselves?
  • When will this malicious plugin be fixed or removed, not just in Debian, but in all distros that have it?
  • When will the package maintainer who defended the plugin's behavior be dealt with?