Bug 1000245 - bugzilla contains bundled Flash files
Summary: bugzilla contains bundled Flash files
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bugzilla
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Emmanuel Seyman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: WebAssets-BundledBinaries
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-23 04:13 UTC by T.C. Hollingsworth
Modified: 2015-01-20 21:09 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-01-20 21:09:32 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description T.C. Hollingsworth 2013-08-23 04:13:39 UTC
This package contains binary files that are typically excuted by the Flash
player or another similar program.

These files are not permitted in Fedora. [1]  Everything we produce needs to
be built from source. [2]

The offending file(s) shipped in this package are:
/usr/share/bugzilla/js/yui/connection/connection.swf
/usr/share/bugzilla/js/yui/swfstore/swfstore.swf

If these files are just a fallback for something that is now supported by modern
web standards like the HTML5 <video> element, please just remove the binaries.

If removing these files would seriously cripple your application, please let me
know so we can figure out a solution.

If you have any questions, please shout.  Thanks!

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-built_binaries_or_libraries
[2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/187836.html

Comment 1 Emmanuel Seyman 2015-01-20 21:09:32 UTC
I've added this to the bugzilla spec file in rawhide:

# Remove bundled binary files
rm -f js/yui/*/*.swf

which should solve this issue.


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