Bug 597848

Summary:	www-plugins/adobe-flash package got confusing when support from npapi switched to ppapi
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	J.O. Aho <bugs-gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	desktop-misc, hydrapolic
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description J.O. Aho 2016-10-23 09:13:15 UTC

The www-plugins/adobe-flash has always been providing a npapi version of the flash player plugin and when Adobe is in the way of starting to support npapi for the version 23, the ebuild suddenly switches to support ppapi.

There should be a split of the www-plugins/adobe-flash into two different ebuilds, one which keeps on supporting npapi and the other (suggested name www-plugins/adobe-flash-ppapi) which supports only the ppapi build.

If not splitting, two USE flags has to be crated npapi and ppapi, so that you can specify which version of plugin you want to have installed (suggestion in this case: +npapi -ppapi).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge firefox-bin
2. emerge www-plugins/adobe-flash
3. start firefox and visit http://test-flash.net


4. emerge -C www-plugins/adobe-flash
5. emerge chromium
6. emerge =www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.637
7. start chromium and visit http://test-flash.net

Actual Results:  
In both cases: no flash player installed

Expected Results:  
at least for 23 version that both browsers would have a working flash plugin

There been a chrome-binary-plugins which chromium users has been using and suddenly the flash plugin was removed from it, making people wonder why flash not working any more in chromium.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-10-24 06:27:36 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 593650 ***