Adobe no longer maintaining yum repo for flash-plugin

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 12:41 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Andre Robatino
> <robatino at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm not sure what else to do. The Flash plugin
> > was updated to 11.2.202.235 about a week ago. This is a security update. But
> > their yum repos (both i386 and x86_64) still have 11.2.202.233. I filed
> > https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3185733 and they promptly
> > closed it as NotABug. There is an updated RPM at
> > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ under ".rpm for other Linux" but I'm not sure
> > if it's identical to what the repo is supposed to provide. In any case,
> > providing a yum repo implies a promise that it will be kept updated. Could
> > people please vote for my bug in the hope of getting someone at Adobe to wake
> > up? Thanks.
> 
> Adobe drops Flash for Linux except in Google Chrome
> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Adobe-Drops-Flash-for-Linux-Except-in-Google-Chrome-254483.shtml
> 
> Maybe this has something to do?
> 
> FC

This is strange because of the adobe website they advertise a linux
flash-plugin later than the one I can install from the F16 adobe.repo.