Hi, my mailbox also just got flooded with this cron message. Here is a small patch for update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree which eliminates the problem.
Cheers, Christopher -- ====================================================== Dipl.-Ing. Christopher Odenbach Zentrum fuer Informations- und Medientechnologien Universitaet Paderborn Raum N5.314 odenb...@uni-paderborn.de Tel.: +49 5251 60 5315 ======================================================
--- /usr/sbin/update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree 2017-01-14 18:53:10.000000000 +0100 +++ update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree 2017-06-14 13:51:57.001641637 +0200 @@ -85,13 +85,16 @@ done [ "$ACTION" != "none" -a $# -eq 0 ] || show_usage -[ "$quiet" != "yes" ] || verbose=no +wgetprogress='-v --progress=dot:default' +if [ "$quiet" = "yes" ]; then + verbose=no + wgetprogress='' +fi [ "$verbose" != "yes" ] || echo "options : $getopt_temp" wgetquiet='-q' wgetfast='-t 3 -T 15' -wgetprogress='-v --progress=dot:default' [ "$quiet" != "no" ] || wgetquiet="" [ "$fast" != "no" ] || wgetfast="" wgetoptions="$wgetquiet $wgetfast $wgetprogress"