On 06/11/2010 08:40 AM, Bart Martens wrote: > Are not yet OK: > - 64 bit player on amd64 systems > > For some unknown reason Adobe has chosen to publish APSB10-14 without a > solution for the 64 bit player.
They have released 10.1, and issued a bulletin on all the known security issues in 10.0.x. Because 10.1 don't have initial support for amd64, they have discontinued the amd64 beta. [1] They won't give a timeline for when they will release 10.1 for amd64, but just say they will do it someday. [2] If they meant it with security, they would have made a last beta release which wouldn't do anything, other than maybe writing that it has been discontinued on the canvas. Since a lot of users have installed the amd64 beta through this package, I think it's also this packages responsibility to tell the users that: Adobe announced yesterday that they dropped all support for the amd64 beta effective immediately, but claim that they will reintroduce support in a future release. > All info on the available versions of flashplugin-nonfree can be found > at http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer. End-users don't read the wiki, other than for howto install it in the first place. They don't monitor it for updates. If this package requires them to do so, in order to maintain a secure setup, they should be strongly advised to subscribe to a specific mailing list, during install. [1] http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html [2] Read the comments on: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2010/06/flash_player_101_now_available.html -- Best regards Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
