WebKit 2.40 update for buster

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Hi Berto,

On 19/06/2023 12:59, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 02:17:37PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 
>> I have prepared a repository at
>>
>>    deb [allow-insecure=yes] https://people.debian.org/~pochu/lts/webkit/ ./
>>
>> I'd appreciate some testing of any webkit applications (epiphany-browser,
>> evolution...) that you can.
> 
> 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).

But in general I think it may be the time to discontinue these updates and ask 
users to only use this with trusted content.

Cheers,
Emilio