Comment 0 for bug 1911463

Since Adobe Flash Player is officially no longer available or end of life, they seem to have made a redirect to a link, that pepperflashplugin-nonfree likely uses for obtaining Flash, to the 'End of Life' page of the Flash website. This means that when installing pepperflashplugin-nonfree from now on, it'll keep trying to download the HTML file for the end-of-life page.

Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Newly installed pepperflashplugin-nonfree - 1.8.6ubuntu1

Someone should probably update this package to, instead of trying in vain to download Flash, show a notice saying Flash has reached end-of-life and so this package is no longer available. Packages like Opera from the official Opera repository still depend on this package, currently.

Output:
Unpacking pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.6ubuntu1) ...
Setting up pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.6ubuntu1) ...
--2021-01-13 18:18:25-- https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/webservices/json/?platform_type=Linux&platform_arch=x86_64&browser_dist=Chrome
Resolving get.adobe.com (get.adobe.com)... 193.104.215.66
Connecting to get.adobe.com (get.adobe.com)|193.104.215.66|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html?platform_type=Linux&platform_arch=x86_64&browser_dist=Chrome [following]
--2021-01-13 18:18:25-- https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html?platform_type=Linux&platform_arch=x86_64&browser_dist=Chrome
Resolving www.adobe.com (www.adobe.com)... 2a02:26f0:104::1701:f2c0, 2a02:26f0:104::1701:f2cb, 176.255.202.96, ...
Connecting to www.adobe.com (www.adobe.com)|2a02:26f0:104::1701:f2c0|:443... connected.