Thanks for your well-written bug report. :) ** Description changed:
+ [Impact] + Since Adobe Flash Player is officially no longer available or end of life, they seem to have made a redirect to a link, that pepperflashplugin-nonfree likely uses for obtaining Flash, to the 'End of Life' page of the Flash website. This means that when installing pepperflashplugin-nonfree from now on it'll keep trying to download the HTML file for the end-of-life page. + + The proposed uploads are plain no-change SRU backports of the dummy + package in hirsute sync'ed from Debian. With that we prevent more users + from stalling their package system by trying to install or update + pepperflash. + + [Test Case] + + * Install pepperflashplugin-nonfree from + {groovy,focal,bionic,xenial}-proposed + + * Confirm that it installs successfully without causing any issues + with the package system. + + * Run the update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree command and see the EOL + notice. + + [Where problems could occur] + + We replace an obsolete package which creates issues with a dummy. The + upgrade removes a config file in /etc, and the download and install + functionality is not present in the new version. TBH I can't think of + anything special. + + [Other Info] Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Newly installed pepperflashplugin-nonfree - 1.8.6ubuntu1 Someone should probably update this package to, instead of trying in vain to download Flash, show a notice saying Flash has reached end-of- life and so this package is no longer available. Packages like Opera from the official Opera repository still depend on this package, currently. Output: Unpacking pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.6ubuntu1) ... Setting up pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.6ubuntu1) ... --2021-01-13 18:18:25-- https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/webservices/json/?platform_type=Linux&platform_arch=x86_64&browser_dist=Chrome Resolving get.adobe.com (get.adobe.com)... 193.104.215.66 Connecting to get.adobe.com (get.adobe.com)|193.104.215.66|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html?platform_type=Linux&platform_arch=x86_64&browser_dist=Chrome [following] --2021-01-13 18:18:25-- https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html?platform_type=Linux&platform_arch=x86_64&browser_dist=Chrome Resolving www.adobe.com (www.adobe.com)... 2a02:26f0:104::1701:f2c0, 2a02:26f0:104::1701:f2cb, 176.255.202.96, ... Connecting to www.adobe.com (www.adobe.com)|2a02:26f0:104::1701:f2c0|:443... connected. ** Also affects: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Focal) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Groovy) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1911463 Title: Can no longer successfully download Flash during postinst To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/+bug/1911463/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs