Bug#974698: RM: freshplayerplugin -- RoQA; Obsolete, Unsupported by browsers, EOL upstream
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: buster
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm
Quoting from https://bugs.debian.org/966474, i.e. the removal from sid:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:56:15 +0100 Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> As per Adobe Flash Player EOL [1] flash player is going end of life by
> end of this year. Similar statements are linked from that article by
> Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla.
>
> Currently browsers in Debian have already dropped NPAPI and the
> package itself fails to build from source. [2] [3]
>
> The time has come to kill Flash and remove this package from the archive.
>
>
> [1] https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html?cq_ck=1591175470736
>
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=947288
>
> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949478
The FTBFS is probably not an issue on buster, but the otherwise useless
package should go from stable as well.
Andreas
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