Flash on Firefox or Chromium as snap not explained

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

[Impact]

net-install-flash.page explains how you can conveniently make Flash work with conventionally installed web browsers. Nothing is said about Firefox or Chromium as snap.

Considering the plan to drop the .deb packages for Chromium, and only make that browser available via a snap, it has become more important that the docs explain how you make Flash work in that environment. With this SRU we add such a section to the disco docs, i.e. the latest stable release.

The translators were notified about this change:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2019-June/007549.html

So the new strings have been translated into some languages. But while translations into some languages are missing, making the information available in at least English carries greater weight.

[Test Case]

 * Install ubuntu-docs 19.04.3 from disco-proposed.

 * Open Help and navigate to "Networking, web & email" -> "Web
   browsers" -> "Install the Flash plug-in".

 * Find the section "Web browser provided as a snap package" at the
   bottom of the page.

[Regression Potential]

Negligible.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Fixed in ubuntu-docs 19.10.1

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Gunnar, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-docs into disco-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/19.04.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-disco to verification-done-disco. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-disco. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Verified the test case.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-docs - 19.04.3

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ubuntu-docs (19.04.3) disco; urgency=medium

  * net-install-flash.page:
    - Added section for Firefox or Chromium as snap (LP: #1833592)
  * Updated ubuntu-help.pot
  * Translations from Launchpad

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:23:00 +0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ubuntu-docs has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.