Thinking back to the experience on iPlayer when the change was made, the
situation was exacerbated by the Flash 10 package being updated to Flash
11 *in place*, as opposed to a new Flash 11 package being built and
adobe-flashplugin just repointed to it.  Doing it this way rather than
Flash 11 named as Flash 10 in Software Centre etc - the contents changed
but the pkg remaining the same - would have meant it might have been
possible to force version within Synaptic - or offer the two versions of
Flash in Software Centre.

There is an active bug reported for Android on the iPlayer's help pages,
which recommend they back down to 10.3 - but 10.3 is available as an app
in the Android store.  Win users have an installer to do the dirty work
- surely it would be best for Ubuntu to offer a backout package just
while Adobe get themselves organised...

There's also the issue of large deployments when a showstopping bug is
released within Flash...

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  [needs-packaging] - Adobe Flash 10.3.183.10 - as Flash 11 current
  breaks BBC iPlayer for NVIDIA ION-equipped netbooks

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