On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 05:04:58PM +0000, Franz Schrober wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems Christian Marillat is the only one which is able to provide a working
> and fast updated package for flashplayer-mozilla in the Debian universe.
Wow, that's quite a big statement.
> But it
> seems that Adobe stopped working on Flash for Linux and only provides security
> updates.
Which are available in Debian via flashplugin-nonfree.
> But Google picked it up an now publishes it as libpepflashplayer.
Which is available in Debian via pepperflashplugin-nonfree.
> This
> is quite important information because the newest Chrome/Chromium now don't
> work anymore as expected with the old Flashplayer.
Which is a choice in Chromium unrelated to how fast Debian supports security
updates of the available Flash Players.
> There is also a bug report
> in Debian http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/730235 and
> upstream https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=322804 - but I
> doubt it will be fixed because Google provides a working alternative.
Which seems to be a bug unrelated to how fast Debian supports security updates
of the available Flash Players.
>
> Debian already provides pepperflashplugin-nonfree but it is "broken" for end
> users (like flashplugin-nonfree). It has no way to get security updates
> automatically - a no go when using flash.
It may not be how you expect it to be, but security updates are supported :
update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install
>
> Is it possible to package flashplayer-pepper in Deb-Multimedia?
I'm OK with that, really. As long as popcon goes up and numbers of bugs remain
low, I'd like to believe that I'm doing a pretty good job in Debian on
flashplugin-nonfree and pepperflashplugin-nonfree.
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=flashplugin-nonfree
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=pepperflashplugin-nonfree
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=flashplugin-nonfree
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=pepperflashplugin-nonfree
>
> PS: This is not against Bart Martens work
I think you should check the facts before making big statements.
> but the update thing seems like a big
> problem to me.
Well, see above.
Regards,
Bart Martens
