Bug#790218: pywebkitgtk: depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 which is deprecated

pochu at debian.org pochu at debian.org
Sat Jun 27 15:41:23 UTC 2015


Source: pywebkitgtk
Severity: important
Tags: sid stretch
User: pkg-webkit-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 webkit1

Hi,

pywebkitgtk depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, which is deprecated in
favor of libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37. pywebkitgtk should be ported to the
new webkitgtk version so we can remove the old, unmaintained one.

As an intermediate step you can port pywebkitgtk to
libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, which has a similar API to libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 but
is based on GTK+ 3.0. Thus you'd be porting pywebkitgtk to GTK+ 3.0
first, using libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, and you could then port to
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 later. But note that libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 is also
deprecated.

Please try to do this before the Stretch release as we're going to
try to remove libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 this cycle.

We'll bump this to serious when the list of rdeps is small and we're
getting ready to removing libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 completely.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

Emilio 




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