REGRESSION [hardy-backports]: flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1 causes Firefox to crash on numerous popular websites

[Alexander Sack]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 03:30:16PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 
> I am aware (I approved the backport) and as soon as I get somwhere that 
> lends itslef to a stable IRC presence (less than an hour) I intend to hunt 
> down an archive admin and deal with it.

Thanks. Problem with this particular regression is that we cannot cure
affected users. As long as libflashssupport is on the system it will
cause i386 firefox to crash.

> 
> Backports by design are risky and aggressive.  Sometimes they don't work 
> out and we deal with it.  We actually don't want to prevent risk taking in 
> backports, so please don't 'fix' the process.
> 

I agree that backports usually bear some risk, but this particular
backport reintroduced libflashsupport which I intentionally removed
from the depends of flashplugin-nonfree in order to get rid of
the constant crashes you see with that lib on i386.


 - Alexander