Comment 15 for bug 1911463

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Ɓukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Thank you for providing the SRUs! I have a question though before we proceed, please be patient with me here: it feels to me that this package will now remove/uninstall any already installed/downloaded flash plugin, or is it just some configuration file? Since I see that `update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --uninstall` will now be ran instead of `--install --fast`. I don't really know the history of flash (didn't use it for ages now) so not sure when it stopped being available - and if the existing binaries still work or not - but are there any ill implications of that `--uninstall` happening? Like, could it be that some people with already installed packages have still a working flash plugin? Or is that not possible?

I just want to make sure that this update won't, by accident, disrupt some existing weird workflows of people relying on having it around. Since I'm +1 on no longer installing the plugin as it's not available for download, but removing something that might have been already installed on the users machine - well, for this I'd have to know if for instance the plugin does not work anymore anyway.