Ship Adobe flash player by default

Registered by Eugenio Paolantonio

In order to make user's experience easier, we should ship adobe flashplayer by default.
Currently only on i486, as the 64 bit version has several problems:
 1) Has several security issues (released Nov. 2010, and it's still release 10.2)
 2) Has a bug with Debian's eglibc (in amd64), we can fix it by either preloading a library (but the browser too will be affected by that) or by fixing with a bsdiff libflashplayer.so (but adobe's license denies that)

We should create our own package as flashplugin-nonfree doesn't have an automatic update tool (and sometimes will fail the install if the flashplugin is updated).

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Status:
Complete
Approver:
Semplice Development Team
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
Eugenio Paolantonio
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Eugenio Paolantonio
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for emily
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon emily-alpha2
Started by
Eugenio Paolantonio
Completed by
Eugenio Paolantonio

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