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List:       debian-security
Subject:    Re: flash plugin from ubuntu (was: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates)
From:       Stefan Fritsch <sf () sfritsch ! de>
Date:       2016-08-04 20:10:35
Message-ID: 2834460.UmDzQtnkTi () k
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On Mittwoch, 3. August 2016 22:55:25 CEST Luedtke, Nicholas (HPE Linux 
Security) wrote:
> This sounds like a bad idea and if done needs to be accompanied by a lot of
> documentation.

Why? It's certainly less of a security hazard than the current flashplugin-
nonfree package.

> 
> -Nicholas
> ________________________________
> From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 4:03:32 PM
> To: debian-security@lists.debian.org
> Cc: Bart Martens
> Subject: Re: flash plugin from ubuntu (was: flashplugin-nonfree and latest
> Flash security updates)
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 10:46:33PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> > Maybe the flashplugin-nonfree package should even be replaced by a package
> > that installs the ubuntu archive signing key, sets up the sources.list
> > line, and tweaks the unattended-updates config to allow automatic updates
> > from that repo.
> please, no.
> 
> 
> --
> cheers,
>         Holger


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