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flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #173890
  2. Comment #241

Comment 241 for bug 173890

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Michael R. Head (burner) wrote : Re: [Bug 173890] Re: flashplugin-nonfree fails to install... new version?

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 17:42 +0000, Jim wrote:
> The md5sum on our end is pretty important, actually: we *want* to know
> when the content changes, and then not work until it's QA'd to not cause
> major problems.

That's fine for development releases, but once the stable release has
been made, you've got your users to think about. This should _not_ be a
fatal error. Toss a popup if you must, but leaving the user high and dry
with respect to flash _every time Macromedia makes a new release_ is
really bad.

What's been really problematic is that the issues have been found in the
latest release of flash affect a small number of users (and has taken a
long time to resolve), but the package prevents all users from
installing it.