Bug#457291: flash could be supported on stable.

2008-02-04 Thread Carlo Wood
I'm sorry, but it doesn't seem to make much sense to let the debian users of stable and testing suffer like this. It's not like Adobe is going to be like Oh My God! and change their ways. They clearly don't give a damn. I can't help but sense a political reason not to support flash, just because

Bug#457291: flash could be supported on stable.

2008-02-04 Thread Luk Claes
Carlo Wood wrote: I'm sorry, but it doesn't seem to make much sense to let the debian users of stable and testing suffer like this. It's not like Adobe is going to be like Oh My God! and change their ways. They clearly don't give a damn. That's why we are shipping it in etch-backports as it

Bug#457291: flash could be supported on stable.

2008-02-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Carlo, one link: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Etch/HowTo/Administration#head-136bb7e75e07e8b6463e6b30761ac51776c5c27d Using backports.org is easy. And supporting this particular piece of nonfree in Debian stable is not. This is why the maintainer decided to support it

Bug#457291: flash could be supported on stable.

2008-02-04 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Carlo, Carlo Wood wrote: I can't help but sense a political reason not to support flash, just because it's non-free, the maintainers of debian WANT it to be broken, almost, and certainly don't look hard for a way to give As a Debian user, but someone who isn't related to how Debian is