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Package: pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Version: 1.1
Severity: wishlist
Cc: Ariel <[email protected]>
As explained here by Ariel
http://www.deb-multimedia.org/lurker/message/20131219.101816.82419efa.en.html
- it would be very good when this package would automatically download
new version. The flash plugin is one of the most important packages to
get updated next to the browser itself because they are always
interacting with external sources (aka World Wide Web) which cannot be
trusted. It is also a not well hidden secret that the flash plugin is
one of the most vulnerable pieces and therefore has to be updated
quite fast to keep the users safe. The current
pepperflashplugin-nonfree and flashplugin-nonfree packages are not
updated via the normal debian sources and tools but have to be updated
using not easy understandable commands ("easy" as in "every user
capable of handling a package manager and has this thing installed
will run it because it is logical and a everybody knows about it and
understands why it must be done")
It is currently not known how to best implement it but this bug may be
used to discuss it
--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64
Debian Release: jessie/sid
500 unstable http.debian.net
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi Pau,
See here for a recent example of why the package does not automatically
periodically run the update script :
https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2014/09/msg00050.html
"Would it be possible to go back to an older version?"
An entirely different approach would be that I provide an updated
flashplugin-nonfree package for security.debian.org every time Adobe releases a
security update of the Flash Player. Unfortunately the Debian security team
does not support sections contrib and non-free at all, see 752277 for a recent
communication on that. I regret that very much.
But I understand very much that this request keeps coming back. Users expect
things to be kept up-to-date via apt, and I fully agree with that.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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