[Bug 653612] [NEW] dummy transition to gnash is undesirable

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnash

As of today, Maverick saw the addition of a newer gnash package that
force-replaces swfdec-mozilla with the gnash equivalent.

This is extremely undesirable!

While I realize that swfdec hasn't been updated in ages and doesn't work
on sites that require Flash 9 or 10, its Mozilla plug-in has one
essential feature that gnash doesn't have: it doesn't automatically load
itself. The end result is that with gnash now having replaced swfdec,
loading Firefox literally takes hours (I kid you not!) while it only
took a couple of minutes with swfdec-Mozilla as the flash plug-in. This
is a serious issue that hampers usability! As such, I would appreciate
if Ubuntu reversed Debian's changes for the swfdec transition and leave
the real swfdec packages alone.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: swfdec-mozilla 0.8.8-5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct  2 17:07:45 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI:fi:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnash

** Affects: gnash (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick

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dummy transition to gnash is undesirable
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