Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:2.8.2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Adobe has again updated their flash player version 10 (now dated Nov. 11, 2010) Attempting to install gives the following error: ERROR: sha512sum rejected install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz More information might be available at: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer For this package to be usable for any period of time, it needs to not use a fixed built-in checksum (which I assume is the source of the error). Otherwise, it could be broken again by Adobe doing a new release the day after this is fixed, or the day of the next Debian release for that matter. Possibly it could give a warning on checksum error and allow the user to decide whether or not to install rather than failing outright. I realize there are potential problems with this approach too, but the current approach is badly broken and this might make it less of a problem. FWIW. -- Package-specific info: Debian version: squeeze/sid Architecture: i386 Package version: 1:2.8.2 MD5 checksums: md5sum: /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/*: No such file or directory md5sum: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so: No such file or directory Alternatives: update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for flash-mozilla.so. ls: cannot access /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so: No such file or directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so' (No such file or directory) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages flashplugin-nonfree depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36 Debian configuration management sy ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.0-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-6 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.8-1 Network Security Service libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii wget 1.12-2.1 retrieves files from the web flashplugin-nonfree recommends no packages. Versions of packages flashplugin-nonfree suggests: pn flashplugin-nonfree-extrasoun <none> (no description available) ii iceweasel 3.5.15-1 Web browser based on Firefox pn konqueror-nsplugins <none> (no description available) ii msttcorefonts 2.7 transitional dummy package ii ttf-dejavu 2.31-1 Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu- ii ttf-mscorefonts-installer [ms 3.3 Installer for Microsoft TrueType c pn ttf-xfree86-nonfree <none> (no description available) ii x-ttcidfont-conf 32 TrueType and CID fonts configurati -- debconf information: flashplugin-nonfree/httpget: false flashplugin-nonfree/not_exist: flashplugin-nonfree/local: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org