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.
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) => olavStatus: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
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.
Sorry about the noise. I did not check before filing the bug to see if it had been done already. My bad.
No problem