Comment 20 for bug 1632870

Moving on to the browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash issues mentioned in this thread: just like pepperflashplugin-nonfree (the PPAPI plugin), browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (the NPAPI/PPAPI wrapper) comes from Debian and has no Ubuntu maintainer, only the MOTU guys who are overworked already.

So any change that we would like to see made to it will only be made in Debian, and with Debian in mind, and land in the development release of Ubuntu, not in the already-released releases, unless a MOTU takes specific action.

This is why, for instance, browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash will keep recommending pepperflashplugin-nonfree, the sole packaged source of PPAPI Flash plugin for Debian users, whereas we Ubuntu users would rather see browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash recommend adobe-flashplugin instead (Stéphane, comment 4).

The reproaches made in this thread against browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash have been documented in other bug reports (bug 1544409, bug 1633678). I'm therefore removing this package from the current bug report, because it is about the PPAPI Flash plugin, not the PPAPI/NPAPI wrapper.

Those reproaches are (Stéphane, Niklas):

* should recommend adobe-flashplugin instead of pepperflashplugin-nonfree

* should install the wrapper as a higher-priority alternative to the NPAPI plugin installed by adobe-flashplugin (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin -> /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so) instead of as a separate plugin (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so -> /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so -> /usr/lib/browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash/libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so), so that only the wrapped PPAPI plugin shows up in Firefox, not the NPAPI plugin too

It is worth mentioning here that Andrei Alin's version of browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (>= 0.3.6-1), in ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8, available for Trusty to Yakkety, takes these reproaches into account and implement our requested changes, contrary to Debian's version of browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash. Thanks Andrei!

I suggest using Andrei Alin's version over Debian's version, not only because it closely follows upstream versions, but also because it is better tailored to Ubuntu users and adobe-flashplugin.