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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1544409@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On 2016-11-13 19:42, Nathanaël Naeri wrote:
> I can think of one last way of fixing this inconvenience in published
> releases: make pepperflashplugin-nonfree a metapackage Depending on
> adobe-flashplugin (assuming this is possible since the later is in
> Canonical Partner).

For precisely that reason I'm assuming it's not possible
(unfortunately).

>> As regards which package browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
> 
> Agreed. Looking forward to your work making its way into the
> published releases, and we can close this bug.

I'm waiting for a sponsor to upload it to xenial-proposed and yakkety-
proposed. (I'm not a MOTU.) Will probably happen soon.

> How does one go about stopping a package from being imported from
> Debian?

By requesting in a bug report that it's removed and subscribing ~ubuntu-
archive. Autosync only happens for packages which already exist in the
Ubuntu archive with exactly the same version number.

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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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