Bug 476520 – =www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.3.183.90 - Please keep non-sse2 version.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Martin Väth 2013-07-11 11:10:25 UTC]

Yesterday, www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.3.183.90 was removed from the tree.

Please restore it since this is the only version which does not require sse2.

If you think that the security holes are too large, mask it, but please do not remove it from the tree, since there are users with non-sse2 machines who are forced by some websites to use flash.  I am one of those :(
(The alternatives still do not work with many websites)

[Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2013-07-11 11:53:23 UTC]

See also:
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3154276
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3155858
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3161034

on how Adobe has been "handling" this problem.

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-07-11 12:23:21 UTC]

I'm sorry, it's gone forever. "Flash Player 11.7 will replace version 10.3 as the extended support version beginning July 9, 2013."[1] They've done that exactly on the day, and that's when 10* was both vulnerable and unmaintainable.

Please find the ebuild at [URL] and put it in a local overlay.

[1] http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2013/05/extended-support-release-updated-to-flash-player-11-7.html

[Comment 3 Rafał Mużyło 2013-07-11 15:13:09 UTC]

If there's no pressure from the distros, the upstream bugs will get nowhere.

Sure, these setups are quite a bit out of date, but they still work decently (well, at least in the tasks you'd put them to these days).

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-07-11 15:26:27 UTC]

(In reply to Rafał Mużyło from comment #3)
> If there's no pressure from the distros, the upstream bugs will get nowhere.

It didn't go anywhere for years when there /was/ pressure from the distros.

> Sure, these setups are quite a bit out of date, but they still work decently
> (well, at least in the tasks you'd put them to these days).

Decently, but with gaping security holes which will never be patched. Good luck with that.

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-07-11 15:35:21 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #4)
> (In reply to Rafał Mużyło from comment #3)
> > If there's no pressure from the distros, the upstream bugs will get nowhere.
> 
> It didn't go anywhere for years when there /was/ pressure from the distros.

years => more than a year