Bug#620154: chromium: False flash-out-of-date alarm

[Shai Berger]

Package: chromium
Version: 12.0.742.112~r90304-1
Followup-For: Bug #620154


Hi,

I ran into this today, and found the following:

Chromium complains that Flash is out of date; when I
press the "Update plug-in..." button, it takes me
to an Adobe page (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?no_redirect) 
that tells me the last Flash version is 10.3.181.34; 
when I "Run this time" and right-click the element,
I get an option "about Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.34".
First thought: Chromium is deeply broken about this.

However, if I actually click the "about..." option, I
get a different Adobe page: 
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
This page claims that the last Flash version for Linux
with Mozilla based-browsers is indeed 10.3.181.34, but
for Linux/Chrome it is 10.3.181.36.

So the root of the problem appears to be that between Adobe
making different versions for different browsers, and Chromium
insisting that the latest available version be used, they broke
the assumption (which is widespread across Linux distros)
that one Flash installation can be used for the entire system.

I'm not sure what to make of this, or even which
package should own the bug.

HTH,
	Shai.


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Debian Release: wheezy/sid
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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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ii  libevent-1.4-2     1.4.13-stable-1       An asynchronous event notification
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ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-3               generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.4.4-2               FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1            1:4.6.1-3             GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4        2.32.4-1              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11        1.4.6-7               LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.5-1              GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.28.6-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.24.5-1              GTK+ graphical user interface libr
ii  libjpeg62          6b1-1                 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d        4.8.8-2               NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d         3.12.10-2             Network Security Service libraries
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ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.4-1              Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.44-3              PNG library - runtime
ii  libspeex1          1.2~rc1-1             The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6         4.6.1-3               GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvpx0            0.9.6-1               VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libx11-6           2:1.4.3-2             X11 client-side library
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ii  libxext6           2:1.3.0-3             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-3          GNOME XML library
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ii  libxss1            1:1.2.1-1             X11 Screen Saver extension library
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ii  xdg-utils          1.1.0~rc1-2           desktop integration utilities from
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chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n                 <none>     (no description available)

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