Lukasz, > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 23:14 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > >> > >> Lukasz Szybalski schrieb: > >> > It was there before. Was flashplugin-nonfree removed from debian > >> > repository? > >> > >> See http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080217. It was removed with 4.0r3 > >> because of missing security support. Updated packages are available via > >> backports.org. > > > > Thank you. I've merged that information in the wiki page. > > Also, I've removed duplicate content in Manual-Howto.
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 17:33 -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > Did you verify before you deleted the section form manualhowto? > The manual-howto had instruction on how to manually install flash > player to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ vs the "flash=player page does > not. As I mentioned in the changelog, I removed that section because it duplicate the content of the page FlashPlayer. I decided not to merge the content because explaining how to manually install something is just the wrong way to do things: I defeats the purpose of having a distribution. People willing to install or compile stuffs manually should use LFS, Gentoo, Windows or whatever. > "Flashplugin-nonfree has been removed (see below), as this is closed > source and we don't get security support for it. > For security reasons, we recommend to immediately remove any version > of flashplugin-nonfree and any remaining files of the Adobe Flash > Player. The above paragraph is only true for people that don't use backport. > Tested updates will be made available via backports.org." Exactly. That's what people should use. Thanks you for your contributions, Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
