On Tue 15 Jun 2010 18:23 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:

Am 15.06.2010 18:22, schrieb Andreas Radke:

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Am Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:12:38 +0300 schrieb Ionuț Bîru <biru.ionut@gmail.com>:

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the current x86_64 version of flashplugin has security problems and adobe dropped/temporally closed x86_64 releases.

How do we manage this situation? Only dropping from repo? Should we submit an empty package? Suggest our users to remove their package if they consider security important?

We should post a news item about this so the users may decide to remove it or keep it. Another option could be shipping a dummy empty -1.1 pkg for x86_64 with a small post.install msg.

I'll keep this installed despite the security problem. Combined with flashblock, I can at least watch youtube this way. Force-removing it by a dummy update is something I don't want.

Yeah forced removal is not the Arch Way. An announcement would be much better.