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New upstream acroread releases: 8.1.4 and 9.1

  1. Series intrepid
  2. Bug #350239
Bug #350239 reported by Damiano Dallatana
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Medibuntu
Won't Fix
Medium
Lionel Le Folgoc
Gutsy
Won't Fix
High
Lionel Le Folgoc
Hardy
Won't Fix
High
Lionel Le Folgoc
Intrepid
Won't Fix
High
Lionel Le Folgoc
Jaunty
Won't Fix
Medium
Lionel Le Folgoc

Bug Description

Adobe released Adobe Reader 8.1.4 to solve a few security problems (Security Bulletin at [1]). It is localized as 8.1.3.
Adobe also did release Adobe Reader 9.1 for GNU/Linux. It is also available as .deb package, but only for i386. It is English only now.
Is it possible to give users the possibility to choose between "old" but localized 8.1.4 (to be updated on the repository) and new but English-only 9.1?

BTW, thanks for your work!

[1] http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-04.html

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

Gutsy will be EOL'd in less than a month, that's not worth the effort.

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

Hardy and intrepid will probably only ship acroread 8.x, and jaunty the 9.x one (see Bug #340767).

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Jack Deslippe (jdeslip) wrote :

I have jaunty and medibuntu but still only see 8.x available. Am I missing something?

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

Marking as Won't Fix: acroread is now available in Canonical's partner repository, so Medibuntu packages won't be updated/will be removed.

Changed in medibuntu:
assignee: nobody → mrpouit
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : Re: [Bug 350239] Re: New upstream acroread releases: 8.1.4 and 9.1

Hello,

  Thanks for the info. Yet I noticed that the package in Canonical's
  partner repository isn't split between several small binary packages
  as you done at Medibuntu.

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

Hi,

You can file a wishlist bug on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread (Bug #359592 has already been filed for instance).

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Lionel, I understand the reasons for your decision to no longer offer acroread packages in medibuntu. Given the rather sorry state of the packages from the partner repo and the fact that packages from debian-multimedia.org are readily available for syncing, I was wondering if you'd consider to revisit your earlier decision?

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

No, sorry. The packaging from debian-multimedia.org is really a pain to maintain (requires synchronized updates/uploads of lots of packages). Moreover, when a package is available is ubuntu/canonical repositories, I prefer to use this one rather than the one from debian/debian-multimedia.
Bugs have been filed against acroread in partner anyway, but apparently it won't be split, so it'll probably stay as-is for our packages too.

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