Bug#457291: what's going on with Adobe Flash player in Lenny?
Under current circumstances at least, losing Adobe Flash Player from a Debian desktop system is a big deal because of the loss of YouTube because, as I understand it, the free Flash players don't work with YouTube. Hi. YouTube already works with Gnash the free Flash player, so that in particular should not be a problem. Many other sites are not yet working, but Gnash could be possibly defined as working well enough in time for the Lenny. At least I'm using it exclusively anyway, and I'm just using the 0.8.1 version, which lacks development for the last four months. But I don't find it problematic to skip sites that don't work with Gnash, so I'm not an average user. In summary, Gnash works rather well for Flash 7 sites, but quite a large portion of sites has moved to Flash 8 and 9 which are only a work-in-progress with regards to Gnash, and most do not work properly. Time will tell how fast Gnash will progress. -Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#457291: what's going on with Adobe Flash player in Lenny?
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 16:08 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, we plan to have flashplugin-nonfree available for debian stable users. Either via volatile or via backports.org. Not via volatile. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/12/msg00179.html Yes, I intend to maintain a package for Debian stable users at backports.org. Regards, Bart Martens signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#457291: what's going on with Adobe Flash player in Lenny?
Under current circumstances at least, losing Adobe Flash Player from a Debian desktop system is a big deal because of the loss of YouTube because, as I understand it, the free Flash players don't work with YouTube. Can you please elucidate on why Lenny will not have this package? Will there be a free alternative that will work enough? (I appreciate that 'enough' is vague) I'd just appreciate knowing what's going on, thanks. I understand this package must be problematic for Debian Stable because it downloads a static package name whose contents change and so this package breaks when Adobe's player is updated. Has anyone asked Adobe if they'll give their packages a version-specific filename and leave old versions on their server? Pete Boyd
Bug#457291: what's going on with Adobe Flash player in Lenny?
Hi, we plan to have flashplugin-nonfree available for debian stable users. Either via volatile or via backports.org. regards, Holger pgpQEMgsVb9hQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#457291: what's going on with Adobe Flash player in Lenny?
Thanks for the information. What about for Debian Testing users? as far as I understand there isn't an equivalent in Testing of backports.org or volatile. Pete Boyd
