I'm sorry, but it doesn't seem to make much sense to let the debian users of stable and testing suffer like this. It's not like Adobe is going to be like "Oh My God!" and change their ways. They clearly don't give a damn.
I can't help but sense a political reason not to support flash, just because it's "non-free", the maintainers of debian WANT it to be broken, almost, and certainly don't look hard for a way to give their users an easy way to use flash. Just as long as the result is that the users blame Adobe, and not debian, it's ok - regardless of how much the users suffer because of it. Flashplayer could be support, technically, in the following way: The flashplugin-nonfree package would keep track of the last time it downloaded the flashplayer from Adobe. If an update (ie for security reasons) is needed, then a new flashplugin-nonfree with a newer version is released. This would cause the package to be updated the usual way. The new package would contain the date at which Adobe made the lastest version available. If that date is later than the last time the flashplayer was downloaded - it is downloaded again, and installed. If necessary, ie as sanity check, it is easy to obtain the real version from libflashplayer.so: strings libflashplayer.so | grep '[0-9]\.[0-9] r[0-9]' Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48 To make a long story short: TECHNICALLY there is no reason to rip flashplugin-nonfree out of stable and testing-- it is therefore not very nice towards the users of debian and my anger towards Adobe is now devided over Adobe AS WELL as debian. -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
