https://www.adobe.com/ee/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html# "As previously announced in July 2017, Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020 (“EOL Date”)"
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2f9d7cd5b01a8e7169f22c1bc230dcf5da62f0cd commit 2f9d7cd5b01a8e7169f22c1bc230dcf5da62f0cd Author: Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-11-12 20:32:02 +0000 Commit: Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-11-12 20:35:10 +0000 profiles: Last rites for www-plugins/adobe-flash https://www.adobe.com/ee/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html# "As previously announced in July 2017, Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020 (“EOL Date”)" Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/754192 Signed-off-by: Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cb4d4d4773601fc883c25e8675279e4858367a4d commit cb4d4d4773601fc883c25e8675279e4858367a4d Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-11-12 21:52:09 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-11-12 21:53:26 +0000 media-video/kmplayer: Drop dead IUSE=npp to fix CI Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/754192 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.1, Repoman-2.3.23 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> media-video/kmplayer/kmplayer-0.12.0b-r4.ebuild | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+)
Hello, I do not agree to last-rite adobe flash. Why? Because it is necessary in some professional IT use-cases, although adobe does not support or fix flash any more. Examples: VMware vSphere vCenter Webclient, the flash variant of the webclients on the vCenter versions 6.0 and 6.5 are the only way to configure some advanced features. Some older versions of FNT Command also have exclusively a flash-based webclient. It is true that this software is shortly outdated, or will become outdated within the next 12-24 months. But in reality, there are many dependencies and reasons which defer updates for months or years. I would prefer to PMASK it permanently instead of removing it. DISTFILES would be kept in the gentoo mirrors, even when adobe removes their distfiles from their download servers. The PMASKED message should state that the software is insecure and outdated and only kept for very special usecases. People who really want it can then unmask it. The same situation was with dev-java/icedtea-web, see bug #711392 - package was vulnerable, but necessary for some business cases.
(In reply to Martin Dummer from comment #3) > It is true that this software is shortly outdated, or will become outdated > within the next 12-24 months. But in reality, there are many dependencies > and reasons which defer updates for months or years. > I'm not saying you're _wrong_ but the real solution here is going to be using e.g. Ruffle like archive.org. Also, browsers will be dropping support for this anyway. > I would prefer to PMASK it permanently instead of removing it. DISTFILES > would be kept in the gentoo mirrors, even when adobe removes their distfiles > from their download servers. The PMASKED message should state that the > software is insecure and outdated and only kept for very special usecases. > People who really want it can then unmask it. This is not possible for Flash for legal reasons: >RESTRICT="bindist mirror strip" > > The same situation was with dev-java/icedtea-web, see bug #711392 - package > was vulnerable, but necessary for some business cases. But there was an alternative around which arrived. In theory, yes, we could mask until there's some viable open source version available in tree though. But we're still at the behest of Adobe wrt when they remove it.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde-sunset.git/commit/?id=414b4ec32f0940d083387d6ab019f35b61e3ea87 commit 414b4ec32f0940d083387d6ab019f35b61e3ea87 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-12-07 14:45:33 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-12-07 16:36:31 +0000 media-video/kmplayer: Drop dead IUSE=npp, adobe-flash EOL Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/754192 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.12, Repoman-3.0.2 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> media-video/kmplayer/kmplayer-0.11.5.ebuild | 23 +++-------------------- media-video/kmplayer/metadata.xml | 5 +---- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
I can confirm that SRC_URI no longer works.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=908a680cda72c28e5e5b48da684d64e1048888a6 commit 908a680cda72c28e5e5b48da684d64e1048888a6 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-01-03 12:36:47 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-01-03 12:38:04 +0000 www-plugins/adobe-flash: Remove last-rited pkg Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/754192 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.force | 4 - profiles/default/linux/uclibc/package.mask | 1 - profiles/package.mask | 6 - www-plugins/adobe-flash/Manifest | 4 - .../adobe-flash/adobe-flash-32.0.0.453.ebuild | 141 --------------------- www-plugins/adobe-flash/files/mms.cfg | 117 ----------------- www-plugins/adobe-flash/files/pepper-flash | 1 - www-plugins/adobe-flash/files/pepper-flash-r1 | 1 - www-plugins/adobe-flash/metadata.xml | 12 -- 9 files changed, 287 deletions(-)
