[Bug 1911463] Re: Can no longer successfully download Flash during postinst

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Thank you for the backstory and additional information Gunnar, Thomas!

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Title:
  Can no longer successfully download Flash during postinst

Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree source package in Focal:
  In Progress
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree source package in Groovy:
  In Progress
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Since Adobe Flash Player is officially no longer available or end of
  life, they seem to have made a redirect to a link, that
  pepperflashplugin-nonfree likely uses for obtaining Flash, to the 'End
  of Life' page of the Flash website. This means that when installing
  pepperflashplugin-nonfree from now on it'll keep trying to download
  the HTML file for the end-of-life page.

  The proposed uploads are plain no-change SRU backports of the dummy
  package in hirsute sync'ed from Debian. With that we prevent more
  users from stalling their package system by trying to install or
  update pepperflash.

  [Test Case]

  * Install pepperflashplugin-nonfree from
    {groovy,focal,bionic,xenial}-proposed

  * Confirm that it installs successfully without causing any issues
    with the package system.

  * Run the "update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install" command and
    see the EOL notice.

  [Where problems could occur]

  We replace an obsolete package which creates issues with a dummy. The
  upgrade removes a config file in /etc, and the download and install
  functionality is not present in the new version. TBH I can't think of
  anything special.

  [Other Info]

  Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
  Newly installed pepperflashplugin-nonfree - 1.8.6ubuntu1

  Someone should probably update this package to, instead of trying in
  vain to download Flash, show a notice saying Flash has reached end-of-
  life and so this package is no longer available. Packages like Opera
  from the official Opera repository still depend on this package,
  currently.

  Output:
  Unpacking pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.6ubuntu1) ...
  Setting up pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.6ubuntu1) ...
  --2021-01-13 18:18:25--  https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/webservices/json/?platform_type=Linux&platform_arch=x86_64&browser_dist=Chrome
  Resolving get.adobe.com (get.adobe.com)... 193.104.215.66
  Connecting to get.adobe.com (get.adobe.com)|193.104.215.66|:443... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
  Location: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html?platform_type=Linux&platform_arch=x86_64&browser_dist=Chrome [following]
  --2021-01-13 18:18:25--  https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html?platform_type=Linux&platform_arch=x86_64&browser_dist=Chrome
  Resolving www.adobe.com (www.adobe.com)... 2a02:26f0:104::1701:f2c0, 2a02:26f0:104::1701:f2cb, 176.255.202.96, ...
  Connecting to www.adobe.com (www.adobe.com)|2a02:26f0:104::1701:f2c0|:443... connected.

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