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Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates

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On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 20:43 +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> 
> On 03/08/16 11:55, Paul Wise wrote:
> 
> <Cut>
> 
> > 
> > I'm not part of the team,
> 
> Me neither.
> 
> > 
> > but I do know that contrib and non-free are
> > not supported by the Debian security team, so they are unlikely to
> > make any fixes nor announcements.
> > 
> > https://www.debian.org/security/faq#contrib
> 
> You can download the plugin manually. For i396 it's;
> http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.429/install_flash_player_11_linux.i3
> 86.tar.gz
> 
> Replace '11.2.202.429' with the version you want. And maybe 'http' with 
> 'https'.
> 
> > 
> > I'd encourage everyone reading this list to use this opportunity
> > transition away from using the Adobe Flash player. Most of the web
> > should support standard HTML5 by now, various folks have been pushing
> > to get rid of Flash for a long time.
> 
> I don't have Flash on my new Jessie box. I don't miss it.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Rob
> 
> 
> 

Only thing legitimate that I've seen that still depends upon flash is the new flash based vcenter
for managing ESXi hosts.  Why they went with flash is beyond me, but it doesn't work with this
version of flash anyhow, I've had to install it through the browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
package.

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flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates "Darren S." <phatbuckett@gmail.com> - 2016-08-01 17:30 +0200
  Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Francesco Negri <francesconegri@gmail.com> - 2016-08-01 18:30 +0200
  RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-03 02:50 +0200
    Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-08-03 12:00 +0200
      Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2016-08-03 21:00 +0200
        flash plugin from ubuntu (was: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates) Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de> - 2016-08-03 23:20 +0200
          Re: flash plugin from ubuntu (was: flashplugin-nonfree and latest  Flash security updates) Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2016-08-04 00:10 +0200
            Re: flash plugin from ubuntu (was: flashplugin-nonfree and latest  Flash security updates) "Luedtke, Nicholas (HPE Linux Security)" <nicholas.luedtke@hpe.com> - 2016-08-04 04:40 +0200
              Re: flash plugin from ubuntu (was: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates) Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de> - 2016-08-04 22:20 +0200
        Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Jason Fergus <leech@thefnords.org> - 2016-08-05 17:00 +0200
      RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-04 04:20 +0200
    Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2016-08-03 21:10 +0200
      RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-04 04:30 +0200
        Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2016-08-04 08:20 +0200
  Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org> - 2016-08-04 01:00 +0200
    RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-04 04:50 +0200

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