Public bug reported:
Hello,
I suspect an error in the postinst script of flashplugin-installer
(ubuntu 12.04.2).
With initial installation or package upgrade, I see flashplugin-
installer downloading and installing the tar.gz file from adobe. So far
ok.
Then, wrongly, the subsequent run of /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-
common downloads and installs the same tar.gz file again.
This happens because update-notifier-common (or rather /usr/lib/update-
notifier/package-data-downloader) finds a definition file /usr/share
/package-data-downloads/flashplugin-installer but no stamp file /var/lib
/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/flashplugin-installer.
After the run of update-notifier-common a stampfile is of course
present, so that this unnecessary download happens only once.
The postrm script of flashplugin-installer seems to handle this stamp
file correctly, as it is no longer present after purging the package.
But the postinst script should, I guess, create the stamp file on
successful download, so that update-notifier-common can detect that no
action is necessary.
I verified this on two different machines, one is a fresh installation
of ubuntu 12.04, the other is kubuntu upgraded to 12.04.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.285ubuntu0.12.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-45.70-generic 3.2.44
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-45-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 4 20:35:56 2013
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-12 (418 days ago)
** Affects: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise
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systematic duplicate download of adobe-flashplugin_xxx.orig.tar.gz
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