[Bug 1544409] Re: Flash plugin is installed as a dependency of browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (freshplayerplugin) even if it is already installed by another package

2016-02-11 Thread Vincent Danjean
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

[Bug 1544409] Re: Flash plugin is installed as a dependency of browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (freshplayerplugin) even if it is already installed by another package

2016-02-11 Thread Nathanaƫl Naeri
Makes sense. Now we need an Ubuntu MOTU maintainer to take a look at this. I can't offer to put the alternative in place myself, it is beyond my skills (one day hopefully). > One should also probably check that there are proper Conflicts/Replaces > between pepperflashplugin-nonfree and

[Bug 1544409] Re: Flash plugin is installed as a dependency of browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (freshplayerplugin) even if it is already installed by another package

2016-02-11 Thread Nathanaƫl Naeri
> I don't know if [having two PPAPI Flash plugins] is that much of a problem Come to think of it, it is: the one browser-plugin-freshplayer- pepperflash recommends, pepperflashplugin-nonfree, must be updated manually or cronly by sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install, while the one in