Bug 28317

Summary:	The lightspark package should be marked as deprecated, and be DROPPED from Mageia 8
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jose Manuel López <joselp>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	luigiwalser
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://lightspark.github.io/
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	lightspark-0.8.3-3.mga8.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jose Manuel López 2021-02-08 13:02:00 CET

Description of problem: Flashplayer stopped having support in December 2020, so the lightspark package should be considered obsolete for Mageia 8.

Flashplayer ni you can even download it from the official Adobe site and recommend its uninstallation for security reasons.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):Mageia 8 and Lightspark 0.8.3


How reproducible: Search Lightspark in RPMDrake

 
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Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2021-02-08 16:31:36 CET

Thank you for this observation. It is indeed true that at last Flash is NOT recommended. I wonder who uses this package.

Curiously, the project is still active:
"Lightspark is still in alpha state, it currently implements around 78% of the Flash APIs"
 https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark/releases
 0.8.3  dbluelle released this on Jul 5, 2020
 0.8.4  github-actions released this 23 hours ago

Assigning this globally for closure either 'agreed & done'; or 'wontfix, keep it anyway'. CC'ing DavidW for his expert opinion.

Summary: The lightspark package should be marked as deprecated and exit rpmdrake in Mageia 8 => The lightspark package should be marked as deprecated, and be DROPPED from Mageia 8
CC: (none) => luigiwalser
Source RPM: Lightspark => lightspark-0.8.3-3.mga8.src.rpm
URL: (none) => http://lightspark.github.io/
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 2 David Walser 2021-02-08 17:00:17 CET

Actually the fact that the Adobe Flash implementation is EOL is all the more reason to keep this open-source implementation.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Comment 3 Jose Manuel López 2021-02-08 20:06:27 CET

But if Flash Player is EOL, I think that even for security reasons, we should not give the option to support this technology.

Comment 4 David Walser 2021-02-08 20:07:41 CET

Wrong, Adobe Flash Player is EOL.  That has no bearing on lightspark.