On 2020-04-18 02:37, Simon McVittie wrote:
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Minecraft is another proprietary package with the same issue: #956520
(which also mentions dropbox).
Interesting. Strange that these 3rd party providers provide a thing, but
then fail to check if it's actually still working or up-to-date.
flashplugin-nonfree doesn't seem to have worked correctly since 2017,
the
plugin it installs is full of known security vulnerabilities, and,
again,
browsers have dropped NPAPI support, so I can't say I feel particularly
guilty about breaking that one.
True on its own, it no longer pulls latest versions from Adobe. But the
update-flashplugin-nonfree script has been useful for applying latest
versions downloaded manually from adobe.com, after hacking the script to
handle a local tarball file (the patch from
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851066#69 ). Maybe I
should nmu flashplugin-nonfree to fix some things.
One possibility is to bring back the transitional package for one more
release cycle (ugh), give it (>=) rather than (=) dependencies on
libraries
from the same source package like you suggested, but downgrade the
Depends
on libpangox-1.0-0 to Recommends or Suggests? That's not *strictly*
correct,
but maybe close enough?
Certainly good enough for me. Your call on libpangox-1.0-0 :)
Drew
