Bug#907078: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2: Drop this package?

Jeremy Bicha jbicha at debian.org
Mon Aug 27 12:17:19 BST 2018


On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 7:14 AM Alberto Garcia <berto at igalia.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 03:56:42PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>
> > libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2 has only one reverse dependency in Debian:
> > epiphany-browser recommends it. epiphany-browser 3.29 no longer
> > supports NPAPI plugins. Since epiphany 3.30 will be released around
> > the same time as webkit 2.22, I propose we drop the -gtk2 package
> > now in the 2.21 (experimental) series.
>
> No problem with that, but I wonder: what about backports? If 2.22
> builds and runs in stretch we surely want to have a backport there...

Could you just revert dropping the gtk2 package in your backports branch?

Jeremy



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