[Bug 1778041] Re: browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash broken

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

The Cosmic build failed for s390x, which prevents migrating to cosmic-
release. OTOH, the browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash package is a
wrapper to be used together with the PPAPI plugin in adobe-flashplugin,
which is only built for amd64 and i386. So let's only build the package
for amd64 and i386.

Attached please find a debdiff with that change to be applied to the
version in cosmic-proposed. For bionic and xenial I have changed the
proposed uploads in the PPA in the same way.

** Patch added: "freshplayerplugin_cosmic.debdiff"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freshplayerplugin/+bug/1778041/+attachment/5164271/+files/freshplayerplugin_cosmic.debdiff

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Title:
  browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash broken

Status in freshplayerplugin package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in freshplayerplugin source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in freshplayerplugin source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in freshplayerplugin package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash prevents sites which require
  Flash from working with the latest versions of Firefox. If you select
  "Ask to Activate" in FF, the contents requiring Flash is not shown. If
  you select "Always Activate", the tab with the page requiring Flash
  simply crashes.

  Issue identified via <https://askubuntu.com/q/1048357>. A "no change
  rebuild" does not help.

  The proposed version in the PPA fixes the issue, so the wrapper works
  as intended also with the latest FF version.

  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/freshplayerplugin

  This suggests an upgrade to a newer upstream version. This is the
  upstream changelog:

  2017-12-23  Rinat Ibragimov  <ibragimovrinat at mail.ru>

   * release v0.3.9
   * network: stop using files with NPN_PostURL

  2017-12-09  Rinat Ibragimov  <ibragimovrinat at mail.ru>

   * release: v0.3.8
   * misc: add NPN_PluginThreadAsyncCall emulation for Firefox 58

  2017-05-31  Rinat Ibragimov  <ibragimovrinat at mail.ru>

   * release: v0.3.7
   * graphics: add more fullscreen _NET_WM controls
   * misc: drop libpdf wrapper
   * misc: drop NaCl wrapper
   * misc: search for PepperFlash in Chrome component update
   directories

  2016-10-05  Rinat Ibragimov  <ibragimovrinat at mail.ru>

   * release: v0.3.6
   * graphics: fix off-by-one pixel issue in fullscreen scaling
   mode
   * graphics: try to flicker less
   * misc: use ICU for character set conversion, use WhatWG
   canonical encoding name conversion
   * misc: guess default character encoding from locale name
   * misc: guess GTK+ major version at run time

  Admittedly it includes a few minor improvements, but hopefully this
  can still pass as an SRUable microrelease (or something...).

  [Test Case]

  1. Install adobe-flashplugin and the {xenial,bionic}-release
     version of browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash.

  2. (Re)start Firefox and visit
     <https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html>.

  => Find that it doesn't confirm that Flash is installed.

  3. Install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash from
     {xenial,bionic}-proposed.

  4. Repeat 2.

  => Confirmation that the latest Flash version is installed.

  [Regression Potential]

  Considering that the {xenial,bionic}-release version of
  browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash breaks Flash completely on
  Firefox, the risk that this upload makes the situation worse is
  non-existent.

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