Promote adobe-flashplugin over flashplugin-installer

Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunnarhj at ubuntu.com
Fri Oct 28 16:36:06 UTC 2016


On 2016-10-28 16:24, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> * While flashplugin-installer downloads the Flash plugin from a
>   third-party source, adobe-flashplugin installs it directly, so the
>   users will get updates (for security or other reasons) through the
>   regular package updates.

Please let me correct myself:

I see now that flashplugin-installer gets the plugin from the 
adobe-flashplugin source at 
<http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/>, and is 
updated when adobe-flashplugin is updated.

So I'm a little confused. Enabling Canonical Partner, if the user 
requests installation of third-party software, and installing the 
adobe-flashplugin package still appears to open for a smoother work 
flow, and would probably make it possible to drop flashplugin-installer.

-- 
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj



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