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). Cheers, Emilio
