On 12/20/09 11:26, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I suspect you are confused by the difference with the stable release > in debian (Lenny), and what is available in other versions of > debian. Gnash 0.8.6 is available in Debian, in the unstable > distribution and is also currently in the testing distribution which > represent what hopefully will be included in the next stable release > (Squeeze).
Ah yes, stable to the point of unusability on the Desktop. :-( > The version in Lenny will probably not be changed, while important > bugs might be fixed using backported patches or home made bug fixes. Which is nearly impossible for Gnash, often bugs get fixed by heavy code refactoring... > Not sure if that is possible. But we could do this in Debian Edu, > which is based on Debian Lenny with a few updated packages to get > very important fixes in. Are you interested in maintaining gnash in > Debian Edu/Lenny for a few years (until Debian Lenny no longer have > security support), fixing bugs and security issues? Aren't we already doing that ? I just checked in a fix (#11723), which primarily fixes all the problems with the deb packages. I cleaned up all the dependencies, till they all can be installed in parallel, mozilla, klash, and konqueror too. I built new x86-karmic packages, now building the other platforms. > This is what we did for Debian Edu/Etch, as gnash was not really fit > for general use. Currently we are working on the Debian Edu/Lenny > release, and here we have Gnash 0.8.4 which seem to be working for > several sites, and thus might be better than providing no Flash > implementation in the default installation and only document how > schools can install Adobe Flash. It seems better to use a newer release. "stable" in this case means not keeping up to date with the web. Ubuntu keeps up to date with Gnash, and it hasn't ever been a problem. And definetely more sites work now than did for 0.8.4. > The problematic sites I have seen and tend to visit to check the > curren status is <URL: http://www.steinalder.no/flashsite.htm >, > where Gnash earlier failed to wrap the text, leading to only the > first words of the history from the stone age to show up in the > browser and As I can't read Norwegian, I can't tell which is the history link. But everything I clicked on seemed to work. There was a lot of work done to Text fields, text formatting, etc this summer, so maybe it's all fixed. > <URL: http://met.hia.no/ > which only report an error instead of > showing the weather status, and finally <URL: http://www.vg.no/ > > which have an insane amount of flash ads which really should not bog > the machine down as much as it does. Hard to tell, I use AdBlock. :-) The photo galleries and the other stuff I randomly tried all worked fine. - rob - _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list Gnash-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev