Re: Question about flashplugin-nonfree

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Marcio Souza <m.desouza20@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is that most Debian users to update the system using apt-get
> update && apt-get upgrade or the like.
> Thus the flash plugin is not updated and the security problem will persist.
>
> I believe that the flash update should be automatic because no update
> is a security problem.

Indeed, if someone uses that pile of junk, it should at least be
updated frequently and as automated as possible.

There's https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=791761
which hasn't seen action in four months, so people using
flashplugin-nonfree could speed this up by proposing patches in
the BTS.

Cheers, 
        Moritz