This bug has been fixed in pepperflashplugin-nonfree 1.8.3+nmu1 in
Debian on 2017-01-14, and the fix landed in 1.8.3+nmu1ubuntu1 in Ubuntu
Zesty (the current development release) on 2017-01-22. The PPAPI Flash
plugin is now downloaded from Adobe rather than Google. One still has to
run the provided update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree to update it from time
to time.
I'm marking the bug as Fix Released (in the development release).
The package is still broken in the published releases: Trusty, Xenial,
Yakkety. Is it worth requesting Stable Release Updates? It would
qualify, since the bug comes from a web service change that makes the
package stop working, and exposes the user to Flash vulnerabilities.
I also still believe, like I said in comment 32, that this package
offers no advantage over adobe-flashplugin, besides being in multiverse
rather than in partner. Unless that last point is important
(independence from Adobe/Canonical, perhaps?), dropping the package from
Zesty seems more appropriate to me. If this has to be done before
FeatureFreeze, there's only a couple days left. Gunnar, do you have the
authority to do that? Also, did you get feedback from Chris Coulson?
** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54
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