Comment 233 for bug 173890

Conrad Knauer : This bug report is about flashplugin-nonfree that has problems installing flash because flashplugin-nonfree has no way to download the good flash version once it has been updated by Adobe. Since we can't fix this by ourselves (Flash cannot be distributed), the logical way to fix the issue with flashplugin-nonfree is to have direct download link to all flash linux versions, and this can only be fixed by Adobe (unless there is are genius idea I did not have).

Deb repository from adobe and gnash are great ideas, but the first one won't give direct access to already tested flash for new ubuntu users and the second one suggest that gnash will "replace" flash, this is not the case. If some ubuntu users want flash (apparently a lot), I see no reason why we should not do our best to bring flash to ubuntu users, even if gnash get very popular and flash less popular. Your suggestions are great workarounds but not solutions for the flashplugin-nonfree problem which will continue to affect ubuntu users if we don't ask Adobe to provide links to fix flashplugin-nonfree. That's why I transmit the Adobe invitation to ubuntu users.