Package: debian-security-support
Version: 1:11+2021.03.19
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/debian-security-support/security-support-limited

As at Debian 11,

  * webkitgtk is in src:webkit2gtk, not src:webkit.
  * khtml is in src:khtml, not src:kde4libs.

GNOME3 and KDE5 have been around for a while now.
I think security-support-limited should be updated to reflect this.

These libraries are used by, for example, yelp and khelpcenter.
This means this fix will make check-security-support whinge at most GUI users,
the way it already does for needrestart users (#986507).

(I think this is a good thing.
There's really no reason yelp and khelpcenter need to JIT compile 
docbook/mallard to HTML and then embed a custom browser engine.
Get rid of them, render the HTML when the .deb is built, and just run the 
user's normal, security-supported browser.)

Note that someone already reported the khtml issue way back in Debian 7 
(#773387), but it was marked as blocked because
(paraphrasing) "KDE4 libraries are a mess and we'd end up with false positives 
for EVERY library in KDE" (#765452).
This is substantially improved in KDE5, and (AFAICT) should no longer block 
"correctly report src:khtml is insecure crap".



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages debian-security-support depends on:
ii  adduser                3.118
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.77
ii  gettext-base           0.21-4

debian-security-support recommends no packages.

debian-security-support suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  debian-security-support/earlyend:
  debian-security-support/ended:
  debian-security-support/limited:

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