Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-22 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/22/2010 11:52 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 11/19/2010 09:41 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: >> Dne 19.11.2010 15:40, Przemek Klosowski napsal(a): >>> - freeze glibc to avoid this bug ever (OK, maybe this one isn't serious) >>> - fix glibc or the flash wrapper to accommodate the buggy clients >>> - bug

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-18 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/18/2010 05:17 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > * Magnus Glantz [18/11/2010 17:07] : >> I meant patching in general, doesn't have to be glibc. Just temporarily >> solving the issue, in general by patching something :-) > I'm unclear as why you feel the 'somethin

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-18 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/18/2010 04:47 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:39:40PM +0100, Magnus Glantz wrote: >> So.. >> Upside of patching: happy users :-) >> Downside of patching: unhappy developers :-( > and unhappy users because their software runs slower, apparently

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-18 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/18/2010 03:28 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:14:58AM +, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 11/17/2010 11:42 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> How is any of that a reason not to patch glibc? >> >> Upside of patching: happy users. >> Downside: nothing. > Downside: slower memcpy on ss

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-18 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/18/2010 12:04 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Magnus Glantz wrote: >> 2) >> QUOTE >> "And in the end, the big question is simple: >> Are you seriously going to do a Fedora-14 release with a known >> non-working flash player?" >> END QUOTE >&

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-18 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/18/2010 05:23 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > Well, I am glad that Adobe is committing to fixing the problem, but it is not > something I would rely on happening in all cases. I agree completely. On 11/18/2010 05:23 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > The majority of Fedora users also need support f

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/17/2010 10:18 PM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: >> 2) Create a work-around for the end-users (as has been done by several >> people in the BZ #638477-thread) > This pretty much erases whatever incentive Adobe might have to actually fix > the bug. Instead of fixing their code, now what they can do

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/17/2010 10:02 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/17/2010 08:58 PM, Magnus Glantz wrote: >> But.. if we notice that it's broken, we can: >> 1) Notify Adobe about it, so they -can- provide a fix. If they do not >> know, they can't fix it.. The

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/17/2010 09:46 PM, François Cami wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Magnus Glantz wrote: >> On 11/17/2010 09:09 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bruno Wolff IIIwrote: >>>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:57:20 +0100, >>>

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/17/2010 09:30 PM, Ugis Fedora wrote: > From: jonat...@jonmasters.org > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:16:20 -0500 > Subject: Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility > CC: fedora-devel-l...@redhat.com > > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 08:57 +0100, Hans de Go

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
On 11/17/2010 09:09 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:57:20 +0100, >> Hans de Goede wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> For those who do not know it yet, recent Fedora glibc updates include >>> an optimized memcpy (which gets us

Adobe fix on QA/QE: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
Hi guys, I just got an e-mail from Adobe that: 1) They have a fix 2) The fix has been send to QA/QE They say that they cannot commit to any dates, but that they are taking the issue seriously. I told them that if they want volunteers trying out their fix, we can help. Cheers, Magnus Glantz

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Magnus Glantz
gt;>> https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/501 >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Hans >>> Is someone talking to Adobe about this? >> Yes, see https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-5739 > Adobe benefits from Flash in Linux. So it s