[Mageia-dev] Adobe Flash player 11 Beta 1 in Cauldron

Fri Jul 15 12:37:49 CEST 2011

On 15 July 2011 11:55, Angelo Naselli <anaselli at linux.it> wrote:
+> venerdì 15 luglio 2011 alle 10:10, Ahmad Samir ha scritto:
+>> Hello.
+>>
+>> As you've seen the thread, posted by Charles A Edwards, there's a new
+>> version of flash which has native 64bit support, it's still in beta
+>> but seems to work well, some questions:
+>> - Any objections about offering it in mga1? on x86_64 only and keeping
+>> the 32bit stable one as is for now; not having to install
+>> nspluginwrapper or a 32bit browser on a 64bit system is an
+>> improvement, IMHO.
+> I'm in favour with some doubts though.
+>
+> Some people think mageia is quiet... so maybe we should start to increase
+> updates/backports and improving people feelings...
+
+You mean create "hype" with updates? just updating for updating's sake
+is not useful, for me at least, unless an update fixes a bug in a
+package I am using.
+
+> I say that without using that much mga1, but some days ago updates were
+> so little...
+>
+> The big problem with this package though is that if it is buggy and moreover
+> for security reasons, it isn't so upstream responsive, at least for x86_64
+> till now...
+>
+
+I don't have hard numbers, but my guess would be that a lot of x86_64
+users are already using the 11 beta1..... adding it in the repos is
+just a convenience sort of thing (the same with packaging a binary
+blob that doesn't need compiling... even more so if the package in
+question is a skeleton package that downloads a tarball/rpm from
+upstream when the user installs a package).
+
+>>
+>> - For Cauldron:
+>>   o Do we ship the 11 beta1 for both arch?
+> i vote for that, cauldron is cauldron and we can revert or change things
+> before freeze time, some months of testing will show us upstream movements
+> also...
+>
+
+[....]
+
+> Angelo
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+