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Debian packages

Posted Apr 19, 2012 11:53 UTC (Thu) by rswarbrick (subscriber, #47560)
Parent article: Updates on Flash support for Linux

The version 0.5.6-1 package landed in Debian unstable on 4/12/2012. Given that the release is tagged 4/11/2012 on lightspark's launchpad.net website, this took at most one day. This article is dated 4/18/2012. Although it's good to note that packages may be/are available for popular distributions, comments like

For now, source code is the only downloadable incarnation of the release, but the project maintains a personal package archive (PPA), so Debian packages should arrive soon enough.
imply that distributors are less proactive than they actually are.


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Debian packages

Posted Apr 23, 2012 22:02 UTC (Mon) by n8willis (editor, #43041) [Link]

No, it's just a reference to the binary package format, which the project has made releases in in the past, not a commentary on any third-parties.

Nate

Debian packages

Posted Apr 24, 2012 15:12 UTC (Tue) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]

They should say .deb Packages or Ubuntu packages, not Debian packages.

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