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Bug 476520 - =www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.3.183.90 - Please keep non-sse2 version.
Summary: =www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.3.183.90 - Please keep non-sse2 version.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED)
URL: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/vie...
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Reported: 2013-07-11 11:10 UTC by Martin Väth
Modified: 2013-07-11 15:35 UTC (History)
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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 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 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Sure, these setups are quite a bit out of date, but they still work decently (well, at least in the tasks you'd put them to these days).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) gentoo-dev 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 Sure, these setups are quite a bit out of date, but they still work decently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) gentoo-dev 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