Comment 77 for bug 173890
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| Rusty Burchfield (gicodewarrior) wrote Re: flashplugin-nonfree fails to install... new version? | #77 |
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David Walker wrote on 2007-12-17:
> Couldn't something be done to not use md5sums in the .deb file? Since we have
> no idea when Adobe may change the file, could there be a way to say, download
> the file 2 or 3 times and see if the sum is all the same. OR, have some
> dedicated machine somewhere that once-a-day downloads and generates the
> md5sum, which users can check against?
The md5sum check is not only to verify the integrity of the file. It is also to verify the version.
When the version changes, two things need to happen. The package needs to be updated to reflect the version change, so users are notified of the available upgrade. Also, the new version needs to be tested.
If the new version was automagically pushed, everyones flash installations could be broken.
Perhaps a better route would be to ask Adobe to distribute the previous versions of the plugin separately rather than in a massive tarball. If they had each version in a separate, numbered tarball each version of the flash package could point directly to the proper version, and this problem would go away.