Comment 208 for bug 173890

Mekaniserad Apelsin wrote:
> This aint ok. You can't have a postinst-script that first checks if you
> have a file and don't check if it is the right file before deciding if
> to dl the right file.
>
> It screws up upgrading (as you already know) and if/when this deb ever
> hits non proposed repos it will freak out tons of users that a update
> "destroys" their system, and you can't have this in proposed forever,
> new users are constantly asking why flash doesn't work and why they have
> to jump through loops to get flash working.
>
> The script checks for the file /var/cache/flashplugin-
> nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz, check it for its md5sum and
> if it's wrong, dl the new one, and not until that is done and md5 is
> still wrong fail the upgrade.

I'm with Mekaniserad on this one. If you're going to make it
idiot-proof, actually *make* it idiot-proof.