Bug#871962: ring: Build-depends on libwebkit2gtk-3.0-dev which is deprecated

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: severity -1 normal

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 11:03:05PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Package: ring
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid buster
> User: pkg-webkit-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 webkit1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> ring has an optional Build-Depends on libwebkit2gtk-3.0-dev, which is
> deprecated in favor of
> libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev (provided in Debian by webkit2gtk). Please drop
> the alternate Build-Depends so that we can remove the old,
> unmaintained one.
> 
> Please try to do soon as we're going to try to remove the old webkitgtk soon.
> 
> I am filing this bug as "serious" since the old webkitgtk will not be
> available in the next major stable release of Debian (codenamed
> "buster").
>...

Lowering the severity:

The unstable buildds are using the first alternative of build 
dependencies only, alternative build dependencies are a nop.

They might be used for backports, and if stretch (or jessie) would not 
contain libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev the alternative build dependency would 
actually be the correct solution for backports.

libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev is present in stretch (and jessie) so there is 
likely no reason for keeping it, but this is cruft and not an RC issue.

> On behalf of the Debian WebKit Maintainers,
> Jeremy Bicha

cu
Adrian

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