On 15 July 2011 11:55, Angelo Naselli <[email protected]> wrote: > venerdì 15 luglio 2011 alle 10:10, Ahmad Samir ha scritto: >> Hello. >> >> As you've seen the thread, posted by Charles A Edwards, there's a new >> version of flash which has native 64bit support, it's still in beta >> but seems to work well, some questions: >> - Any objections about offering it in mga1? on x86_64 only and keeping >> the 32bit stable one as is for now; not having to install >> nspluginwrapper or a 32bit browser on a 64bit system is an >> improvement, IMHO. > I'm in favour with some doubts though. > > Some people think mageia is quiet... so maybe we should start to increase > updates/backports and improving people feelings...
You mean create "hype" with updates? just updating for updating's sake is not useful, for me at least, unless an update fixes a bug in a package I am using. > I say that without using that much mga1, but some days ago updates were > so little... > > The big problem with this package though is that if it is buggy and moreover > for security reasons, it isn't so upstream responsive, at least for x86_64 > till now... > I don't have hard numbers, but my guess would be that a lot of x86_64 users are already using the 11 beta1..... adding it in the repos is just a convenience sort of thing (the same with packaging a binary blob that doesn't need compiling... even more so if the package in question is a skeleton package that downloads a tarball/rpm from upstream when the user installs a package). >> >> - For Cauldron: >> o Do we ship the 11 beta1 for both arch? > i vote for that, cauldron is cauldron and we can revert or change things > before freeze time, some months of testing will show us upstream movements > also... > [....] > Angelo > -- Ahmad Samir
