From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD6D7138334 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17D6FE07D8; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:22:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC52FE079E for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (dslb-002-200-185-218.002.200.pools.vodafone-ip.de [2.200.185.218]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: chithanh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 05300335CD1 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:22:47 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20180829120123.a14bec29f4b2a239170c2860@gentoo.org> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ch=c3=ad-Thanh_Christopher_Nguy=e1=bb=85n?= Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <5c9476a6-e932-a5bd-8545-ffff1171fcce@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:23:20 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.9.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180829120123.a14bec29f4b2a239170c2860@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: eb8f47bb-6860-4491-bb65-4532690581ae X-Archives-Hash: 98af506572595af7f62f0cac058e454c Andrew Savchenko schrieb: >> # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn (29 Aug 2015) >> # Masked for removal in 30 days. Multiple build failures. Upstream inactive. >> # (bugs #321017, #581284, #588692, #602786, #649006, #654140) >> www-plugins/gnash > > Is there any replacement available? AFAIK no, at least among free > software. And there still many sites which require flash to work. The following other free flash implementations exist: * LightSpark: active development, ASv2 only * swfdec: development stopped in 2009 * Shumway: abandoned by Mozilla in 2016, very low development activity still happens in github[0] I think your best bet to replace gnash would be Shumway. Though it is not possible to use on current Firefox[1]. > So maybe mask it, but not remove? Current gnash snapshot in the tree can only build against a specific set of dependencies, which may disappear any time now (newer versions are stable). I tried to build upstream git head, but it fails. This was reported a year ago, no reaction from upstream: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51484 If it is impossible to build, then I think having it in the tree has no value. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn [0] https://github.com/ExE-Boss/mozilla-shumway [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443253