Package: flashplugin-nonfree
Version: 7.0.61-3
Severity: wishlist
Dear flashplugin-nonfree developer,
My system is a Debian/sarge with some packages from
backports and unstable. I have installed
flashplugin-nonfree from unstable, and I have
wellcomed very much the change from "ruby" to
shell-script for this package.
However, flashplugin-nonfree does not work properly in
sarge:
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$ sudo update-flashplugin
MIRROR_UH = ok
MIRROR_RI = ok
automatic installation failed due to network problems
or upstream changes
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The reason (I found) is that the update-flashplugin
script uses long options for md5sum, e.g.
md5sum --check
In my sarge system there are two versions of md5sum,
belonging to the "dpkg" and "coreutils" packages:
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$ dlocate `which md5sum`
coreutils: /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils
dpkg: /usr/bin/md5sum
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and the binary /usr/bin/md5sum accepts only the short
version of the options:
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$ /usr/bin/md5sum --help
/usr/bin/md5sum: invalid option -- -
usage: md5sum [-bv] [-c [file]] | [file...]
Generates or checks MD5 Message Digests
-c check message digests (default is generate)
-v verbose, print file names when checking
-b read files in binary mode
The input for -c should be the list of message digests
and file names
that is printed on stdout by this program when it
generates digests.
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the binary from "coreutils" accepts short and long
options:
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$ /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils --help
Usage: /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils [OPTION] [FILE]...
or: /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils [OPTION] --check
[FILE]
Print or check MD5 (128-bit) checksums.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
-b, --binary read files in binary mode
(default on DOS/Windows)
-c, --check check MD5 sums against given
list
-t, --text read files in text mode
(default)
The following two options are useful only when
verifying checksums:
--status don't output anything,
status code shows success
-w, --warn warn about improperly
formated checksum lines
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
The sums are computed as described in RFC 1321. When
checking, the input
should be a former output of this program. The
default mode is to print
a line with checksum, a character indicating type (`*'
for binary, ` ' for
text), and name for each FILE.
Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
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Therefore, the call to
md5sum --check
fails, and the plugin does not install. I have checked
that changing the calls to
md5sum -c
in the update-flashplin script, the installation works
properly.
I would like to ask you to change to the short version
of the md5sum options, so that the package can be used
in sarge.
I understand that my setup is non-standard. If you do
not wish to support the installation of
flashplugin-nonfree in sarge, please close this
wishlist bug.
Best regards, and thank you for your work,
Jaume
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (400, 'testing'), (110, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages flashplugin-nonfree depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.13 Debian
configuration management sy
ii gsfonts-x11 0.17 Make
Ghostscript fonts available t
-- debconf information:
flashplugin-nonfree/httpget: true
flashplugin-nonfree/not_exist:
* flashplugin-nonfree/http_proxy:
flashplugin-nonfree/local:
* flashplugin-nonfree/delete: false
flashplugin-nonfree/failed:
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