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[Henrik Skupin <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Ubuntu release: all
Package version: 11.2.202.411ubuntu0.14.04.1

On our machines, which we host behind a firewall and proxy, we have seen
constant popups of the update-notifier for "Failure to download extra
data files" even when the Flashplugin-installer installation was
successful.

I digged deeper into this problem and have seen that the triggers for
update-notifier-common are getting executed by the installer, but there
is no file created at /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads
/flashplugin-installer. So when `/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-
downloader` is executed via cron.daily, it tries to download the file
again and if successful creates the above status file.

That means that for each and every installation / upgrade of Flash the
extra files are getting downloaded twice from the remote location! This
causes lots of extra traffic, and can fail due to the reason below.

The reason why it fails for us, are the proxy settings and that
cron.daily does not inherit our proxy settings from /etc/environment.
But that is already filed as another bug and should not be covered here.

** Affects: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391347

Title:
  Flashplugin-installer forces to download extra files twice

Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu release: all
  Package version: 11.2.202.411ubuntu0.14.04.1

  On our machines, which we host behind a firewall and proxy, we have
  seen constant popups of the update-notifier for "Failure to download
  extra data files" even when the Flashplugin-installer installation was
  successful.

  I digged deeper into this problem and have seen that the triggers for
  update-notifier-common are getting executed by the installer, but
  there is no file created at /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-
  downloads/flashplugin-installer. So when `/usr/lib/update-notifier
  /package-data-downloader` is executed via cron.daily, it tries to
  download the file again and if successful creates the above status
  file.

  That means that for each and every installation / upgrade of Flash the
  extra files are getting downloaded twice from the remote location!
  This causes lots of extra traffic, and can fail due to the reason
  below.

  The reason why it fails for us, are the proxy settings and that
  cron.daily does not inherit our proxy settings from /etc/environment.
  But that is already filed as another bug and should not be covered
  here.

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