Hi Emilio, On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 05:41:23PM +0200, po...@debian.org wrote: > Source: claws-mail > Severity: important > Tags: sid stretch > User: pkg-webkit-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: oldlibs libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 webkit1 > > Hi, > > claws-mail depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, which is deprecated in > favor of libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37. claws-mail should be ported to the new > webkitgtk version so we can remove the old, unmaintained one. > > As an intermediate step you can port claws-mail to > libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, which has a similar API to libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 but > is based on GTK+ 3.0. Thus you'd be porting claws-mail to GTK+ 3.0 > first, using libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, and you could then port to > libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 later. But note that libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 is also > deprecated. > > Please try to do this before the Stretch release as we're going to > try to remove libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 this cycle.
Given the age of upstream GTK+ 3.0 porting bug¹ and the effort required to do such porting I doubt very much this will happen soon, unless some porting guru comes out of the blue. ¹ http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2371 > We'll bump this to serious when the list of rdeps is small and we're > getting ready to removing libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 completely. > > If you have any question don't hesitate to ask. Well, there's some other solutions just from the top of my head, from easier to harder: * drop fancy plugin, which is the one introducing such dependency (and leave Claws Mail users without HTML mail rendering) * upstream embeds the library within the plugin (since it's going to be removed it's not even an ECC) * fork the library keeping API/ABI, repackage it for Debian and depend on the forked one Since upstream is probably not happy with first one, I guess one of the other two will be selected, or something better, if available. Do you have planned dates for the removal to happen? regards, -- Ricardo Mones ~ Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Carl Sagan
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