Bug#818184: RFS: hal-flash/0.3.3-1 [ITP]
Hi,
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 08:46:35 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:20 AM, HAYASHI Kentaro wrote:
>
> > libhal1-flash - Compatibility library to allow playback of Flash DRM content
>
> Since flash is dying and most of the web video has dropped it at this
> point I suggest not putting this in Debian, especially since it is
> solely for DRM, which is against Debian and Free Software community
> principles.
I agree with the fact that flash is dying. But it is not dead completely yet.
And most important point about libhal1-flash is providing HAL stubs layer
by using UDisks (successor of HAL) for ancient software which still uses HAL.
Regards,
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