flash installer package doesnt support ubufox

[Alexander Sack]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

flash needs to link its plugin in /usr/share/ubufox/plugins/

In turn the installer must touch the $APPDIR/.autoreg file in postinst. example how to do that is in the mozilla-plugin-gnash postinst as shipped in intrepid.

In turn we might look into cleaning up how the links are organized. for intrepid we might need a quick solution with low regression risk though.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

discussion from irc on the link cleanup:

12:00 < asac> fta2: actually there is one major thing we might wanna look into
12:00 < asac> even though it scares me a bit and i am not sure if its too high risk
12:01 < asac> (flash)
12:01 < fta2> ?
12:01 < asac> the actual binary should be linked to /usr/share/ubufox/plugins/
12:01 < asac> which sounds simple, but since we have two different locations we cannot use dh_link
12:01 < asac> imo we should look into fixing the fact that flash has two different locations
12:02 < asac> by lets say making whatever binary is used available in /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer-arch.so
12:02 < asac> which would be a link to the i386 binary on 386 and to the npviewer thing on amd64
12:02 < asac> would basically add a another link layer to the solution :(
12:08 < asac> fta2: so what we currently have is:
12:08 < asac> /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
12:09 < asac> <= /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/flashplugin-alternative.so
12:09 < asac> and
12:09 < asac> /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
12:09 < asac> <= (loaded) /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
12:09 < asac> <= /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/flashplugin-alternative.so
12:09 < asac> thats really ugly
12:09 < asac> i mean the alternative system surely shouldnt be used for doing arch dependent locations
12:10 < asac> and because of that ignorance we have the mess now
12:10 < asac> so the clean solution (please give better ideas if you have) would be:
12:10 < asac> /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
12:10 < asac> <= /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer-arch.so
12:10 < asac> <= /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/flashplugin-alternative.so
12:10 < asac> and
12:10 < asac> /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
12:11 < asac> <= (loaded) /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
12:11 < asac> <= /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer-arch.so
12:11 < asac> <= /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/flashplugin-alternative.so
12:12 < asac> (and) /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer-arch.so <= /usr/share/ubufox/plugins/libflashplayer.so

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

(continued about on low-regression approach ...)
12:12 < asac> but i have the feeling that this kind of alternative shuffling will cause risk and frustration for some users
12:12 -!- kaaloo [<email address hidden>] has joined #ubuntu-mozillateam
12:13 < asac> and we have no time to flash out usability glitches
12:13 < asac> hmm
12:13 < asac> so maybe we should keep everything as is and just add the -arch.so link and use it for the ubufox link ;)
12:13 < asac> ouch
12:14 < asac> at least that would give us low regression potential and we could avoid adding yet another arch dependent link :(

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug is very old are there still problems Alexander?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]