Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: buster User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm
Quoting from https://bugs.debian.org/966474, i.e. the removal from sid: On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:56:15 +0100 Dimitri John Ledkov <x...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > As per Adobe Flash Player EOL [1] flash player is going end of life by > end of this year. Similar statements are linked from that article by > Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. > > Currently browsers in Debian have already dropped NPAPI and the > package itself fails to build from source. [2] [3] > > The time has come to kill Flash and remove this package from the archive. > > > [1] > https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html?cq_ck=1591175470736 > > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=947288 > > [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949478 The FTBFS is probably not an issue on buster, but the otherwise useless package should go from stable as well. Andreas
