Bug 3443

Summary:	acroread, Adobe Acrobat Reader
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Kamil Rytarowski <n54>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	hhielscher, marja11, rverschelde
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
Whiteboard:	X
Source RPM:	acroread	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Kamil Rytarowski 2011-11-25 05:31:14 CET

Please include Adobe Acrobat Reader - the well known PDF reader.

This is nonfree, so please prepare the same package as for Adobe Flash Plugin or Skype!

RHEL, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Gentoo and more! include it!

Marja Van Waes 2011-11-28 14:28:20 CET

CC: (none) => marja11
Version: 1 => Cauldron
Severity: normal => enhancement

Marja Van Waes 2012-01-23 07:16:01 CET

Summary: Adobe Acrobat Reader => acroread, Adobe Acrobat Reader
Whiteboard: (none) => X

Helge Hielscher 2012-09-28 13:24:13 CEST

CC: (none) => hhielscher

Comment 1 Rémi Verschelde 2014-08-30 12:06:47 CEST

I don't think we should include it. It's really old, probably has lots of security issues, and there are tons of awesome FLOSS alternatives.

We provide Adobe Flash Player and Skype because there are no really good alternatives (yet), even if we do ship gnash and free alternatives to Skype, they're not that well know nor easy to use.

Acroread is needed _only_ if you need some advanced functionalities such as form filling in the PDF. In such cases, it's better to download the RPM directly from Adobe IMO.

CC: (none) => remi

Comment 2 Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-11 20:53:47 CEST

Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 3 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2017-07-09 19:07:32 CEST

Acrobat Reader is no longer available for Linux.

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