update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree checks root incorrectly

Ubuntu 14.04 package pepperflashplugin-nonfree (version 1.3ubuntu1)
script /usr/sbin/update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree line 33 reads:
[ `whoami` = "root" ] || die_hard "must be root"
This is the wrong way to check for root permission.
It should read something like:
[ `id -u` = '0' ] || die_hard "must be root"

For security reasons, my root user account is not named "root". Almost all programs check for user id 0 but every now and then someone manages to get it wrong.
In this case, i cannot properly update package pepperflashplugin-nonfree except by hacking at the script.

Thanks to whoever will fix this...

-Ted Merrill