Bug#686633: apt: /etc/apt/preferences is not interpreted correctly

[Grześ Andruszkiewicz <gandrusz@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Thanks for your recommendations.

> a) There is 'gnash' available in Debian main - it's a free implementation
> of some (mostly earlier) flash versions. Works for all these "funky"
> flash advertisement banners as well as the media players for audio/
> video streaming just fine. I think it is even part of the default desktop
> install.

I tried gnash some time ago, but it failed with the BBC iplayer. I
will try again though.

> b) There are a multitude of PDF viewers (and even some editors) in main.
> Every desktop environment has its own, e.g. 'evince', 'okular', 'xpdf', …
> Choose what you like. I would at least highly recommend to NOT use Adobes
> Acrobat Reader as its track record for fixing security bugs in its linux
> build is even worse than the record for flash …

I usually use these open-source alternatives for viewing pdf's. I
found that they are producing rather rubbish results when printing
though :(

> c) Never used cinelerra. There were some requests for it to be packaged
> for debian (#78209 and merges), but nobody did it so far, maybe everyone
> uses alternatives which are packaged? I am not to deep into that topic,
> but I recently used kdenlive for some video editing - maybe its an option.

This looks really promising! Thanks for the recommendation.

Cheers,
Grzegorz