Sorry for the late reply; your reply didn't reach me for some reason. May have something to do with the way I have exim4 setup on my system.
Bart Martens wrote: > The Debian package flashplugin-nonfree does not contain the Flash > plugin. It only contains an installer script. The installer script > downloads the .tar.gz from Macromedia, unpacks it, and installs it on > your system. > > If you downgrade flashplugin-nonfree, then you downgrade only the > installer script, not the Flash plugin. > > How to downgrade the Flash plugin : > > See "man update-flashplugin". Use the option --local-file pointing to > the directory where you have kept the old .tar.gz . > > If you have not kept the old .tar.gz, then downgrading the Flash plugin > is not possible, because Macromedia puts only one version available for > download, and that's currently version 7.0.61. > > Note however that --local-file is broken in 7.0.25-5 and 7.0.61-1, see > bug 341238 for details and patches. > > Bottom line is that flashplugin-nonfree does successfully downgrade the > installer script. > > I suggest that you close this bug report. For now, I'll change the > title and severity, in case you don't want to close this bug. Sure, flashplugin-nonfree is a script, but I would nevertheless assume that if you downgrade the script, it will downgrade the flash plugin too. Part of this is the version numbers the scripts do have, part of it is that I don't see why the user wouldn't want to downgrade to flash 7.0.25 when the user downgrades the script to version 7.0.25 (which currently fetches version 7.0.25 if no newer version is installed, right?). > About firefox : there are already bug reports about problems with > firefox and flashplugin-nonfree version 7.0.61-1. Yes, I realized that. Regards, Alexander Toresson
