Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates
On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 20:43 +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote:
> Hi there
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> On 03/08/16 11:55, Paul Wise wrote:
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> > I'm not part of the team,
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> Me neither.
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> >
> > but I do know that contrib and non-free are
> > not supported by the Debian security team, so they are unlikely to
> > make any fixes nor announcements.
> >
> > https://www.debian.org/security/faq#contrib
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> You can download the plugin manually. For i396 it's;
> http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.429/install_flash_player_11_linux.i3
> 86.tar.gz
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> Replace '11.2.202.429' with the version you want. And maybe 'http' with
> 'https'.
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> >
> > I'd encourage everyone reading this list to use this opportunity
> > transition away from using the Adobe Flash player. Most of the web
> > should support standard HTML5 by now, various folks have been pushing
> > to get rid of Flash for a long time.
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> I don't have Flash on my new Jessie box. I don't miss it.
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> Regards,
> Rob
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Only thing legitimate that I've seen that still depends upon flash is the new flash based vcenter
for managing ESXi hosts. Why they went with flash is beyond me, but it doesn't work with this
version of flash anyhow, I've had to install it through the browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
package.
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