Apparently, this bug can't be fixed so easily. Use of md5sums are very important and can't be dropped, and when there's a md5sum missmatch, if the package return 1 and tells synaptic that the installation failed, synaptic will automatically try to reinstall it each time it will install another package. The only way I can see to fix this would be to distribute a flashplugin-nonfree source package that contains the upstream flash player tarball. This way, flash player updates won't affect ubuntu users and the package would always install properly. This solution may require canonical to speak with adobe to gain right to distribute flash. I opened a Wishlist bug for that matter : bug 189790
-- False success installing a packet when MD5sum mismatched https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
