Ubuntu
adobe-flashplugin package

  1. Bug #1544409
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1544409

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Vincent Danjean (vdanjean) wrote : Re: Flash plugin is installed as a dependency of browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (freshplayerplugin) even if it is already installed by another package

The Debian package will keep a Recommends. This package requires the Google pepperflashplugins. The fact that pepperflashplugin-nonfree can be avoided by manually installing it explains why this is a Recommends instead of a Depends (i.e. users that really want can avoid the installation of pepperflashplugin-nonfree). But, for average users, the Recommends is good: by default, "apt-get install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash" will give them a working flash plugin.

When reading this bug report, I agree that the Ubuntu package should have an alternative. If someone tries to use it with Debian (ie installing browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash and adobe-flashplugin but not pepperflashplugin-nonfree) and reports it works, I will also add it in Debian.

One should also probably check that there are proper Conflicts/Replaces between pepperflashplugin-nonfree and adobe-flashplugin (in particular in Ubuntu that provides both packages)