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

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sunday 13 July 2008 13:25, Alexander Sack wrote:
> 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.

When I was testing on i386 it was working for me, so I'm not sure what the 
disctinction is.

> > 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.

That wasn't the only problem.  There were also significant problems after 
libflashsupport was removed and on AMD64.

I'll certainly be more careful before approving another Flash related 
backport.

Scott K