Removing webkit from lenny
Michael Gilbert
michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 03:06:28 UTC 2010
Hi,
The version of webkit in lenny isn't really supportable from a security
perspective. There are currently over 50 open issues needing fixing,
which is a gargantuan undertaking to say the least.
I think that the only sane solution is to remove the package in the
next upcoming point release.
The version included in lenny was rather experimental anyway, and I
doubt there are very many users that would suffer through using that
(I don't think there are any browser frontends other than the default
gtk app anyway). A popcon count would be useful, but I couldn't figure
out how to get a graph for just stable. Regardless, I think the impact
of the removal would be negligible.
Well, let me know if you have any objections. Otherwise I'll send a
request to the release team in a couple days.
Thanks,
Mike
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