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
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