Bug#979072: Bug#979047: RM: pepperflashplugin-nonfree -- RoQA; No longer work; upstream eol
- To: 979072@bugs.debian.org, Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>
- Subject: Bug#979072: Bug#979047: RM: pepperflashplugin-nonfree -- RoQA; No longer work; upstream eol
- From: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:48:49 +0100
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- Reply-to: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>, 979072@bugs.debian.org
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On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 22:09:07 +0800 Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 9:59 PM Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2021-01-02 at 19:53 +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 7:51 PM Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org> wrote:
> > > > As Adobe has shutdown the download of flash, this package now no
> > > > longer works.
> > > >
> > > > https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
> > >
> > > If possible, remove it from stable and old-stable too.
> > - for removal from stable, please "reportbug release.debian.org" and
> > follow the prompts.
I think it would be better to replace the broken installer package with
a dummy package stating the EoL fact. (see #978954 for more discussion)
I uploaded such a dummy as 1.8.8 to sid today.
Andreas
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