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
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