package is falulty in downloading the binary

[Alexandre Otto Strube]

The package flashplugin-nonfree tries to download the binary from macromedia, or one of its mirrors.

This process is very faulty at the moment, as there's nothing at http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/

nor at
http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/site_ucsc.html

(two of locations which the package tries to download it from)

so it's not possible to install.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

I'm confirming this bug. Also I think it would be nice to have some debconf error message if there are nothing at flashplugin download location. Should I report a new bug about this ?

svecias@baltix-linux:~/downloads$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree
Checking new upstream release...
I: checking http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/site_ucsc.html...
No new version is detected. ( = not installed)

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

This bug seems to be fixed in Debian in the 7.0.61-3 version.

Sync with this one is a good idea if we want a working package in Dapper.

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

I confirm the fix in debian (for quite some time, indeed) - and it was already requested on ubuntu-devel. As the package has MOTU ownership, it does not need a UVF exception. Is there any MOTU responsible for it?

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

I'm writing a UVF exception request and will send it on the MOTU mailing list ASAP.

[Benjamin Montgomery (bmonty)]

See bug 35425 for status of the UVF exception request for this package.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

Please don't change bug status on Baltix GNU/Linux distribution unless you are Baltix developer or you are really sure status of the bug on Baltix GNU/Linux distribution.

[Lucas Nussbaum (lucas)]

fixed by new version synced from debian.