Hi Justin, On 29-06-2019 12:24, Justin B Rye wrote: > And how are we deciding when it's "WebKitGTK" and when it's > "webkit2gtk"? Bear in mind that users have no easy way of mapping > from the name of a source package to the name of the specific library > they might or might not have installed.
To be honest, I don't know. Feeling? > This is also a bit short on concrete advice for users. I see. > Could we add > something like > > Users of a modern desktop environment with older (roughly, > pre-Pentium IV) CPUs may wish to delay upgrading until then. Reading again bug 930935 it seems that there are still devices in production, so age isn't a good qualifier. I put it in because it seems I don't have much inspiration for this at this moment. > None of my machines are this ancient, but "dpkg -l | grep -i webkit" > gives no output, so I would be safe anyway - right? Close. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/webkit2gtk shows that there is also javascriptcoregtk to grep. How about the attached version? Paul
diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk
index cdf71c12..6f56d9d7 100644
--- a/en/issues.dbk
+++ b/en/issues.dbk
@@ -288,6 +288,32 @@ $ sudo update-initramfs -u
</para>
</section>
+ <section id="webkit2gtk-on-non-sse2" arch="i386">
+ <title>WebKitGTK (initially) requires SSE2 support</title>
+ <para>
+ Due to changes in the upstream code, <systemitem
+ role="package">webkit2gtk</systemitem> has been built requiring SSE2
+ support. Fixes for this in the Debian code came too late to be
+ incorporated in the initial buster release. This means that systems that
+ don't have SSE2 support built into their CPU can't run applications which
+ use WebKitGTK, e.g. <systemitem role="package">liferea</systemitem> or
+ <systemitem role="package">zenity</systemitem>. These applications will
+ crash, most likely with an <literal>Illegal instruction</literal> error
+ message.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ It is expected that <systemitem role="package">webkit2gtk</systemitem>
+ will support these older systems after the first update of <systemitem
+ role="package">webkit2gtk</systemitem> in either a point release or
+ security update. Users of a modern desktop environment with older
+ (roughly, pre-Pentium IV) CPUs may wish to delay upgrading until then.
+ It is also intended that the buster-backports archive will receive an
+ updated package once that archive opens up for uploads, so an alternative
+ could be to install <systemitem role="package">webkit2gtk</systemitem>
+ from there once it's available.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
<section id="noteworthy-obsolete-packages" condition="fixme">
<title>Noteworthy obsolete packages</title>
<para>
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