[Bug 1911463] Please test proposed package

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello feren, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pepperflashplugin-nonfree into focal-proposed. The package will
build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/1.8.8~ubuntu20.04.1 in a few hours, and then
in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed-bionic

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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:
  Fix Committed
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree source package in Groovy:
  Fix Committed
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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