Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page
Lukasz,
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 23:14 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> >>
> >> Lukasz Szybalski schrieb:
> >> > It was there before. Was flashplugin-nonfree removed from debian repository?
> >>
> >> See http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080217. It was removed with 4.0r3
> >> because of missing security support. Updated packages are available via
> >> backports.org.
> >
> > Thank you. I've merged that information in the wiki page.
> > Also, I've removed duplicate content in Manual-Howto.
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 17:33 -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> Did you verify before you deleted the section form manualhowto?
> The manual-howto had instruction on how to manually install flash
> player to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ vs the "flash=player page does
> not.
As I mentioned in the changelog, I removed that section because it
duplicate the content of the page FlashPlayer.
I decided not to merge the content because explaining how to manually
install something is just the wrong way to do things: I defeats the
purpose of having a distribution.
People willing to install or compile stuffs manually should use LFS,
Gentoo, Windows or whatever.
> "Flashplugin-nonfree has been removed (see below), as this is closed
> source and we don't get security support for it.
> For security reasons, we recommend to immediately remove any version
> of flashplugin-nonfree and any remaining files of the Adobe Flash
> Player.
The above paragraph is only true for people that don't use backport.
> Tested updates will be made available via backports.org."
Exactly. That's what people should use.
Thanks you for your contributions,
Franklin
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