Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:3.6.1+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer, When installing flashplugin-nonfree neither Iceweasel nor Chromium will list the plugin as part of the installed browser plugins, and neither browser will be able to play any flash content on sites that make use of it. For Iceweasel this can be worked around by creating a 'symlink' to help the browser out, for chromium I have not yet found the right/magic symlink path (or it may not be as simple). The flashplugin-nonfree package provides an 'alternative' for: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so Which points into the /etc/alternatives tree and ultimately the chain leads to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so Unfortunately, while this setup enables the use of 'alternative' implementations of libflashplayer.so, it also means that by default the user must manually create symlinks in the /usr/lib hierarchy. So, by default the flash player plugin does not actually 'work' out of the 'box' when flashplugin-nonfree is installed -- making this package unusable by default. This is because browsers do not look for a 'flash-mozilla' but for a 'libflashplayer' library. One can fix this manually for Iceweasel/Firefox by creating a symlink at /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so pointing to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so Presumably there ought to be a similar workaround for Chromium but so far I have been unable to find one that works. Please consider redesigning the set of symlinks installed to make sure that the libflashplayer.so is found by browsers looking for it (as libflashplayer.so), or at least clarify that the user must manually create necessary symlinks in /usr/lib themselves during installation. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
