On 1/15/2014 4:20 AM, Urs Beyerle wrote:
Adobe discontinued the Adobe Reader 9 for Linux in June 2013 and has not fixed and will not fix any further security issues in it. Therefore it makes totally sense to remove it from their repo.
I'm not disagreeing with you but it's still a breathtakingly crappy way of handling it. Acroread for linux is still available as a regular web download, so it's not remotely obvious that it's desupported unless you follow the news independently. For example it might have been worth a final mention on Adobe's "acrobat for unix" blog http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/ rather than leaving that abandoned since 2010!
Graham
