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

Sat Jul 16 11:47:09 CEST 2011

Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 à 10:57 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> On 16 July 2011 02:57, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> > Le vendredi 15 juillet 2011 à 11:10 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> >> 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?
+> >
+> > Yes, I do.
+> > That's a beta, and stable is not a dumping ground for that.
+> >
+> 
+> Right, let's do a head count:
+> Mageia 64bit users who are using the 64bit Adobe Flash 11 Beta 1,
+> please raise your hand (my hand is raised already, I've been using it
+> for 2-3 days).
+> 
+> The point, if there's no other easy way to watch flash for 64bit users
+> without jumping through hoops (using nspluginwrapper, which is
+> occasionally problematic, or using a 32bit browser on an x86_64
+> system, which entails installing some more 32bit libs), there's a good
+> chance they'll use flash 11, alpha/beta/rc is still better than the
+> hoops.
+> 
+> Also we're talking about pushing it to backports, not updates.
+
+I think we were all agreeing to raise confidence in backports.
+
+I think we can also all agree that if Adobe say that's a beta version,
+they are likely more knowledgeable than us about this too.
+
+Is the plugin supported by adobe ? Being still beta, I would say it is
+not for now.
+
+Some of us may have forgot, but they did withdraw the 64 bits version
+plugin in the past with any communication, because it was insecure and
+unsupported, and already a beta version.
+
+We can also agree that taking the same policy regarding backporting than
+at Mandriva will just yield the same result, ie saying "it is not
+supported, so use it at your own risk".
+
+And so, if we want to send the message "backports are supported", we
+should just act accordingly, and not send unsupported softwares to it.
+
+The plugin may work fine now on the machine of everybody, it would still
+be unsupported by adobe.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+