Bug#978954: pepperflashplugin-nonfree: should not be part of next stable Debian release

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Right, it should certainly not be included in its current state in next
release.

But there is more into it. If you for instance try to install Opera from
stable (or oldstable or testing or unstable...) the .deb recommends
pepperflashplugin-nonfree, and you may end up to a situation like this:

https://askubuntu.com/q/1305914

So instead of dropping the package, I think the best thing to do is to
convert it to a dummy transitional package in all supported releases as
well as testing and unstable.

flashplugin-nonfree was handled by just dropping it:

https://bugs.debian.org/969112

But that has already happened, and so be it.

More talk about this topic at <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1871471>.

[Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)]

Hey Gunnar,

Do you know why Opera's debian package doesn't drop the dependency of
pepperflashplugin-nonfree??

I didn't find Opera's official announcement about their roadmap of
Flash's EOL.

But other browsers are already starting blocking flash. Even with the
plugin installed they still refuse to load flash content.

Yours,
Paul

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Paul!

Post by Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)
Do you know why Opera's debian package doesn't drop the dependency
of pepperflashplugin-nonfree??

No. I suspect it's simply an oversight (which creates issues at the moment).

Cheers,

/ Gunnar

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

But let me add that even if Opera fixes that, users may think they want
to enable flash, try to install pepperflashplugin-nonfree, and with that
screw up dpkg. So the issue happens before they try to enable it in a
browser. I.e. as long as the package in its current state is present in
the archive.

/ Gunnar

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

severity -1 important

Bug #978954 [pepperflashplugin-nonfree] pepperflashplugin-nonfree: should not be part of next stable Debian release
Severity set to 'important' from 'grave'

retitle -1 pepperflashplugin-nonfree: should not be part of bookworm

Bug #978954 [pepperflashplugin-nonfree] pepperflashplugin-nonfree: should not be part of next stable Debian release
Changed Bug title to 'pepperflashplugin-nonfree: should not be part of bookworm' from 'pepperflashplugin-nonfree: should not be part of next stable Debian release'.

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

severity -1 serious

Bug #978954 [pepperflashplugin-nonfree] pepperflashplugin-nonfree: should not be part of bookworm
Severity set to 'serious' from 'important'

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