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+               <title>Half the Coverity issues in Gnash fixed in the next release</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_the_Coverity_issues_in_Gnash_fixed_in_the_next_release.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been following &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.getgnash.org/&quot;&gt;the Gnash
+project&lt;/a&gt; for quite a while now.  It is a free software
+implementation of Adobe Flash, both a standalone player and a browser
+plugin.  Gnash implement support for the AVM1 format (and not the
+newer AVM2 format - see
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lightspark.github.io/&quot;&gt;Lightspark&lt;/a&gt; for that one),
+allowing several flash based sites to work.  Thanks to the friendly
+developers at Youtube, it also work with Youtube videos, because the
+Javascript code at Youtube detect Gnash and serve a AVM1 player to
+those users. :) Would be great if someone found time to implement AVM2
+support, but it has not happened yet.  If you install both Lightspark
+and Gnash, Lightspark will invoke Gnash if it find a AVM1 flash file,
+so you can get both handled as free software.  Unfortunately,
+Lightspark so far only implement a small subset of AVM2, and many
+sites do not work yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few months ago, I started looking at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://scan.coverity.com/&quot;&gt;Coverity&lt;/a&gt;, the static source
+checker used to find heaps and heaps of bugs in free software (thanks
+to the donation of a scanning service to free software projects by the
+company developing this non-free code checker), and Gnash was one of
+the projects I decided to check out.  Coverity is able to find lock
+errors, memory errors, dead code and more.  A few days ago they even
+extended it to also be able to find the heartbleed bug in OpenSSL.
+There are heaps of checks being done on the instrumented code, and the
+amount of bogus warnings is quite low compared to the other static
+code checkers I have tested over the years.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Since a few weeks ago, I&#39;ve been working with the other Gnash
+developers squashing bugs discovered by Coverity.  I was quite happy
+today when I checked the current status and saw that of the 777 issues
+detected so far, 374 are marked as fixed.  This make me confident that
+the next Gnash release will be more stable and more dependable than
+the previous one.  Most of the reported issues were and are in the
+test suite, but it also found a few in the rest of the code.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to help out, you find us on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev&quot;&gt;the
+gnash-dev mailing list&lt;/a&gt; and on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/#gnash&quot;&gt;the #gnash channel on
+irc.freenode.net IRC server&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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                <title>Install hardware dependent packages using tasksel (Isenkram 0.7)</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html</link>