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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1544409@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1633678 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1633678

As regards having adobe-flashplugin and pepperflashplugin-nonfree
conflict to each other, please see this email correspondence I had with
Chris Coulson a while ago:

<quote>
On 23/09/16 11:34, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Writing you about adobe-flashplugin, since I noticed that you were
> the latest uploader.
> 
> adobe-flashplugin conflicts flashplugin-installer, which is nice, but
> I think it would be good to let it conflict pepperflashplugin-nonfree
> also to make the installation more straight forward. For that to be
> possible, I suppose that <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1544409> needs
> to be fixed first.
> 
> Do you think that would be steps in the right direction? If so, would
> it be helpful if I prepared some patches to get it done?

Not conflicting pepperflashplugin-nonfree is intentional. When we added
the PPAPI plugin to adobe-flashplugin, an additional conflict would have
prevented update-manager from updating the package for people who
already had pepperflashplugin-nonfree installed.

Regards
- Chris
</quote>

Since it can't be done easily, I guess we have to live with this
inconvenience. I've closed the adobe-flashplugin and pepperflashplugin-
nonfree tasks.

As regards which package browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
recommends, it's about to be fixed via bug #1633678. Marking this bug as
a duplicate.

As regards the future of pepperflashplugin-nonfree, we don't need it in
Ubuntu any longer since we have adobe-flashplugin. While a fixed version
of it will keep being needed for other Debian distros, a reasonable
measure would probably be to drop it from the Ubuntu archive in 17.04.
But that part of the discussion may better be held on bug #1632870.

** Changed in: adobe-flashplugin (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1633678
   Compability issue with adobe-flashplugin

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Title:
  Flash plugin from pepperflashplugin-nonfree is installed as a
  Recommends of browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (source:
  freshplayerplugin) even if it is already installed from another
  package

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