WebKit 2.40 update for buster

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 27/06/2023 16:18, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 10:53:40AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>> I have been testing it a bit using a buster VM but I don't think this
>>> is very stable.
>>>
>>> After removing ~/.cache/epiphany, ~/.local/share/epiphany and
>>> ~/.local/share/webkitgtk I am having problems to open web pages using
>>> Epiphany. The problems go away if I revert WebKitGTK to the previous
>>> version (2.38.6).
>>
>> Thanks for testing it. That's obviously bad, and makes me ponder
>> stopping security updates for webkit on buster and EOL'ing
>> it. Although your experience is different than what Carlos
>> reported. I wonder if you managed to investigate it a bit and see
>> where the crashes came from (I can upload dbg packages if wanted).
> 
> I haven't investigated much further, I can do it if you want, but in
> general I think we're stretching this too much and this is the time to
> stop providing WebKitGTK security updates for buster. The switch to
> 2.40.x was bumpy for bullseye already (rememer the Evolution issues,
> and see also #1036154).

Ack, given the changes (particularly switching to libc++) and the reported 
regressions, I think we just EOL at this point. I don't know if WebKit upstream 
would consider a longer support period on the stable branches or avoid breaking 
changes for a little longer than 3 years, but otherwise we'll have to eventually 
make this decision.

Cheers,
Emilio