Re: flashplugin-nonfree in etch

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007 12:06, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know what the stable release managers plan to do regarding
> flashplugin-nonfree in etch.
>
> As I see it, there are three options:
>
> 1. do nothing, keep a broken package in etch
>
> 2. remove the broken package from etch
>
> 3. request another upload, as the version currently in stable-proposed
> updates has broken since it was uploaded (which was before r1)
>
>
> Additionally I would like to ("officially") ask the volatile team about
> their opinion of including flashplugin-nonfree in volatile/contrib. As I
> read the requierements for volatile, the package fully fulfills them. (The
> package is rock stable and just an installer for (the latest) nonfree flash
> (from adobe) - so it does exactly what the users expect.)
>
>
The new Flash is *known* to break konqueror but works as intended on
FireFox, the reason for this is konqueror does not support XEmbed.  For a 
stable distribution, I'm not sure what the best solution would be.

This was recently discussed on the Ubuntu lists:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-December/024877.html

FYI,

Scott K