Packaging of the chrome flashplayer-pepper

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Author: Franz Schrober
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To: dmo-discussion@deb-multimedia.org
CC: bartm@debian.org
Subject: Packaging of the chrome flashplayer-pepper
Hi,

it seems Christian Marillat is the only one which is able to provide a working
and fast updated package for flashplayer-mozilla in the Debian universe. But it
seems that Adobe stopped working on Flash for Linux and only provides security
updates. But Google picked it up an now publishes it as libpepflashplayer. This
is quite important information because the newest Chrome/Chromium now don't
work anymore as expected with the old Flashplayer. There is also a bug report
in Debian http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/730235 and
upstream https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=322804 - but I
doubt it will be fixed because Google provides a working alternative.

Debian already provides pepperflashplugin-nonfree but it is "broken" for end
users (like flashplugin-nonfree). It has no way to get security updates
automatically - a no go when using flash.

Is it possible to package flashplayer-pepper in Deb-Multimedia?

PS: This is not against Bart Martens work but the update thing seems like a big
problem to me.