Bug 27137

Summary:	The flashplayer rpm should be dropped from Mageia 8 because it will soon be EOL
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Thomas Andrews <andrewsfarm>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	olav
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Thomas Andrews 2020-08-19 14:23:07 CEST

Description of problem:

According to https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html Adobe will no longer update or distribute the flashplay plugin as of December 31, 2020. Also, Mozilla has announced that Firefox will no longer run the plugin once that happens.

Therefore, we should drop our flashplayer rpm from Cauldron now, before version freeze makes it more difficult.

Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2020-08-19 15:33:46 CEST

It should already be gone, see the other bug. Or are you after Mageia 7? I did notice it being referenced in meta-task, I removed it from there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 26991 ***

CC: (none) => olav
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-19 15:35:25 CEST

Currently in Cauldron:
urpmq -i flashplayer

No package flashplayer.

Also urpmf -f flashplayer
mate-faenza-icon-theme-1.20.0-3.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/matefaenza/apps/16/flashplayer.png
mate-faenza-icon-theme-1.20.0-3.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/matefaenza/apps/22/flashplayer.png
mate-faenza-icon-theme-1.20.0-3.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/matefaenza/apps/24/flashplayer.png
mate-faenza-icon-theme-1.20.0-3.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/matefaenza/apps/32/flashplayer.png
mate-faenza-icon-theme-1.20.0-3.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/matefaenza/apps/48/flashplayer.png
mate-faenza-icon-theme-1.20.0-3.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/matefaenza/apps/64/flashplayer.png
mate-faenza-icon-theme-1.20.0-3.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/matefaenza/apps/96/flashplayer.png
mate-faenza-icon-theme-1.20.0-3.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/matefaenza/apps/scalable/flashplayer.svg
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/16/adobe-flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/16/flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/22/adobe-flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/22/flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/24/adobe-flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/24/flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/32/adobe-flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/32/flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/48/adobe-flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/48/flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/64/adobe-flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/64/flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/96/adobe-flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/96/flashplayer.png
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/scalable/adobe-flashplayer.svg
faenza-icon-theme-1.3.1-12.mga8.noarch:/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/scalable/flashplayer.svg
lightspark-ppapi-plugin-0.8.3-1.mga8.x86_64:/usr/lib64/lightspark/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so

Last line is from an integrated flashplayer inside an other application.

Therefore:
task-obsolete-nonfree-8-4.mga8.nonfree has following:
 * sun. aug 09 2020 luigiwalser <luigiwalser> 8-4.mga8
        + Revision: 1612202
        - remove flash from correct repository

If you have installed Mageia 8 Alpha 1 it could still be here. You can do:

urpmi task-obsolete-nonfree

to remove it.

Comment 3 Thomas Andrews 2020-08-19 19:19:25 CEST

Sorry about the noise. I did not check before filing the bug to see if it had been done already. My bad.

Comment 4 Olav Vitters 2020-08-20 13:30:20 CEST

No problem