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flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #1871471
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1871471

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote : Re: flash end of life soon, suggest remove from hirsute

On 2020-11-10 18:10, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> we no longer ship any web-browsers that can actually use this plugin.
> It is innert.

Not true. I just upgraded to FF 82.0.3 and confirmed that Flash keeps working as usual. adobe-flashplugin was updated a couple of hours ago, btw:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adobe-flashplugin/1:20201110.1-0ubuntu0.20.10.1

There are (have always been) a lot of misconceptions floating around with respect to Flash, and flashplugin-installer and browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash were certainly removed prematurely. The EOL date is 2020-12-31.

Anyway, this is as it is, and the remaining Flash packages should of course be dropped during the hirsute cycle. Replacing Flash packages in stable releases with dummies is something which also should be considered IMO.