On 26/07/17 11:04, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 26/07/17 10:50, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >> >> >> >>> In case it wasn't clear: note that moving to GTK3 and building against >>> libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev is not enough, as libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev is also a part >>> of >>> src:webkitgtk, and we plan to remove it as it's also affected by all the >>> security bugs. >> >> >> moving to GTK3 is neede to cherry-pick this patch >> https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/commit/cbe0a1f04928963085c0056a63c4930a73829e05 >>> Moving to GTK+3 and libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev can be a first step, with the goal >>> of >> >>> later moving to libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev, i.e. src:webkit2gtk. >> >> this should be done in a single step :) >>> Note that dropping libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5 is just a better option than to >>> ship >>> webkitgtk in another release. Obviously the best option is to port >>> wxwidgets or >>> to make boinc-manager not use webview so it doesn't have to be removed. >>> Which >>> path we follow is up to you. >> >> >> upstream seems aware of it, and probably will do some work on porting to >> something lighter, >> but I don't see the webkit2gtk as a possible issue right now, do you? > > Not an issue, as long as the porting is done (the webkit1 and webkit2 APIs are > different).
OK I see that porting is already done upstream in the link you quoted. So yeah, it'd be a matter of moving to that. This probably needs a library transition though. Cheers, Emilio
