2008/11/5 Lukasz Szybalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > I agree that installing things manually is a pain but in this case it > seems as one of the options. > First flash player was in sarge, but didn't work, Then sarge fixed it > year later > Second etch came in with flash player, it worked then got removed > Third, backports repository is questionable... > so the only way to me seems like a manual install is one of the options. > > Above point doesn't matter now. I've merged the changes to Flash-player page. > > But I still don't know why flash player was removed...The news says > (see below) but there is noting there. The only explanation (It was > removed with 4.0r3 because of missing security support.) What does > that mean? > > Thanks, > Lucas >
AFAIK they removed the propietary package flashplugin-nonfree in order to spread and give support for the gnash package. I read it somewhere, but i cannot remember where. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
