On Jo, 16 ian 14, 09:58:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I am using the flashplugin from Debian's nonfree repo. If there are > any security updates for it from Adobe shouldn't those updates > ultimately end up in the repo just like all other nonfree stuff? Or > would the security updates end up in some backport repo, since it > would be coming from a newer, non-Linux version of Flash? > > As far as I can tell, I have the latest version not only from the repo, > but according to Adobe as well: 11.2.202 You are missing the fact that the flashplugin-nonfree package doesn't actually contain the plugin. The "package" is actually only a downloading script executed on package install[1]. So the only way to trigger an update would be to bump the package version, which has to be done by the maintainer. [1] which is why it is allowed to stay in 'contrib' rather than 'non-free' If one has good reasons to request such a version bump it would be a good idea to file a bug with appropriate severity (I'd say valid security concerns warrant 'important'). The package maintainer might not be following updates from Adobe very closely. Of course, the package could set up a cron job to do the update automatically, but most people would hate that (me included) and it's trivial to do it yourself. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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