Wrong plugin version displayed in chromium

[Bo Kersey]

Ubuntu Version:
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04

Package Version:
adobe-flashplugin:
  Installed: 1:20161213.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Candidate: 1:20161213.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:20161213.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ trusty/partner amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expected that the correct version of the flashplugin would be reported in Chromium. The error is in /etc/chromium-browser/customizations/10-flash. This problem also appears in pepperflashplugin-nonfree and was reported in bug number 1373271

The version of the adobe-flashplugin package corresponds to:
Adobe Flash Player - Version: 24.0.0.186 however this is what is reported by Chromium:
Adobe Flash Player - Version: 11.2.999.999
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r999
Name: Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r999
Version: 11.2.999.999
Location: /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libpepflashplayer.so

[Bo Kersey (bo-vircio)]

It appears that the the line in the debian/rules file that should take care of this did not work properly in the package that I downloaded from the repository....

Here is the line from the rules file:
 cat debian/10-flash.in | sed -e 's/#PPAPI_VERSION#/$(shell python -c "import json; print json.load(file('$(DEB_BUILD_ARCH)/manifest.json'))['version']")/g' > debian/10-flash

Here is the output when I rebuilt using a clean sbuild environment:
cat debian/10-flash.in | sed -e 's/#PPAPI_VERSION#/24.0.0.186/g' > debian/10-flash

The file /etc/chromium-browser/customizations/10-flash appears to be correct when I build the package without changes in a pristine sbuild environment created with
mk-sbuild trusty --arch=amd64 --name=tester --debootstrap-mirror=http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu --distro=ubuntu --vg data

It looks as if there is something missing in the build environment that is not specified in the control file used to build adobe-flashplugin 1:20161213.1-0ubuntu0.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Pinky Brain (pinkysbrain)]

Also broken in 1:20170314.1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.

The old version independent way of fixing this in the 10-flash script still works by the way.

        flashversion=`strings $flashso 2> /dev/null | grep LNX | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sed -e "s/,/./g"`
        CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --ppapi-flash-path=$flashso --ppapi-flash-version=$flashversion"