Bart Martens wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:33:40PM +0100, Alexander Toresson wrote: > > Sure, flashplugin-nonfree is a script, but I would nevertheless assume > > that if you downgrade the script, it will downgrade the flash plugin > > too. Part of this is the version numbers the scripts do have, part of > > it is that I don't see why the user wouldn't want to downgrade to > > flash 7.0.25 when the user downgrades the script to version 7.0.25 > > (which currently fetches version 7.0.25 if no newer version is > > installed, right?). > > I agree with this. But downgrading the plugin together with the package > is not always possible. The old plugin may no longer be available on > the upstream download site and on the local system. I think that > downgrading a Debian package must not fail over such outside aspects.
That's true. > Maybe changing the version numbering takes away the confusion. Feel > free to submit a patch to suggest that to the maintainer. I don't know. Maybe adding some text besides the "no new versions is detected" on downgrade that tells the user how to downgrade the plugin itself. I'll see what I'll do. > Anyway, I agree with you that things are a bit confusing. The best > solution would be that Macromedia allows redistribution with the GPL. Yep. Regards, Alexander Toresson
