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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1632870@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nominated and approved (the latter via a workaround...)

On 2017-02-14 21:40, Naël wrote:
> @Gunnar: Yes, probably too late for Zesty. Besides, we should
> probably leave the package in Zesty for now, if it is to be
> backported to the previous releases via SRUs. We'll make the request
> later.

+1

** Also affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu Yakkety)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Yakkety)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** No longer affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu Yakkety)

** No longer affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu Xenial)

** No longer affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu Trusty)

** No longer affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54
  for Linux

Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree source package in Yakkety:
  New
Status in pepperflashplugin-nonfree package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Pepperflashplugin-nonfree is a Debian package, slightly modified for
  Ubuntu, and available in multiverse, that downloads the PPAPI Flash
  plugin from Google (up to v1.8.3 in Debian and v1.8.2+nmu1ubuntu1 in
  Ubuntu 16.10) or Adobe (starting with v1.8.3+nmu1 in Debian and
  v1.8.3+nmu1ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 17.04), and installs it as /usr/lib
  /pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so.

  Versions that download the PPAPI plugin from Google are currently
  broken since Google decided to unbundle the plugin from Chrome 54,
  released in late 2016-10. Until that date, ripping the PPAPI plugin
  from a download of Google Chrome (which comes as a .deb package) was a
  popular way to get it, and the only possible way on Linux in the early
  days of the PPAPI plugin, when it was only available to Google. Then
  Adobe made the Linux PPAPI plugin available to Canonical and on their
  download site.

  The Debian package was changed to download the plugin from Adobe, in
  version 1.8.3+nmu1 on 2017-01-14, and that fix landed in
  1.8.3+nmu1ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 17.04 (the current development release) on
  2017-01-22.

  The package is still broken in the published releases: 16.10 16.04
  14.04. It could be repaired by merging the changes made between
  1.8.3ubuntu1 and 1.8.3+nmu1ubuntu1 into the published releases'
  versions of the package.

  This would qualify for an SRU because the bug comes from a change in a
  web service that made the package stop being installable. This change
  also causes a security vulnerability in so far as the Flash plugin can
  no longer be updated (updates were processed by downloading a new
  version of Google Chrome and extracting the bundled Flash plugin).

  [Test Case]

  On Ubuntu < 17.04, installation and reinstallation of
  pepperflashplugin-nonfree (v < 1.8.3+nmu1ubuntu1) fails. On Ubuntu
  17.04 (v = 1.8.3+nmu1ubuntu1), it succeeds.

  [Regression Potential]

  I can't think of any. The new version has been in Debian Sid for one
  month without any report of a regression, so that's a good sign. It
  was initially tested in debbug 833741.

  [Why not to SRU]

  On the one hand, it's bad form to leave an utterly broken package in
  the published releases when it has been fixed in the development
  release and works there. Theoretically, SRUs should be performed.

  On the other hand, pepperflashplugin-nonfree is The Debian's Way to
  install the PPAPI Flash plugin. Ubuntu users are recommended to
  install adobe-flashplugin from Canonical's partner repository instead.
  Not all Ubuntu users are aware of that. See:

  https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/net-install-flash.html
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash

  We can consider intentionally not fixing that package in the published
  releases, in which case this bug report should be marked Won't Fix in
  Yakkety, Xenial, Trusty.

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