On 11/19/2010 03:11 AM, Matej Cepl wrote: > Dne 18.11.2010 16:39, Magnus Glantz napsal(a): >> It's very important that Fedora doesn't rub upstream the wrong way, but >> (if it should come to that, or is already happening) is it worth having >> people change from Fedora to other distributions? > > People who switch from Fedora because of broken Flash are probably not > people we should be most eager to retain. I mean, I don't want to be a > dick, and I don't want to be nasty to people for their preferences, but > some other distribution would probably serve them better. People discussed several possible ways to proceed, proposing solutions ranging from complete accomodation to a principled stand against flash. - freeze glibc to avoid this bug ever (OK, maybe this one isn't serious) - fix glibc or the flash wrapper to accommodate the buggy clients - bug Adobe to fix the bug ASAP, do nothing in Fedora - refuse to use flash and work towards replacing it with Free software Sometimes those choices were discussed as if they were exclusive of each other--but in my opinion that should not be the case. It makes sense to me to pursue the last two on an appropriately longer time scale, while deploying a short-term fix. Someone pointed out that a negative consequence of the short term fix is that other instances of the same problem might stay unnoticed---but that should not be the case if the fix is in the flash wrapper. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
