Paul Gevers wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> + 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.
>
> Obviously this is wrong advice (yes I know, I wrote it). There is no
> binary package with that name, only the source package. Hence the advice
> should be different, except I don't know how to phrase that well, as
> there are 10 possible binary packages. I guess
> libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev, ibwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev and
> libwebkit2gtk-4.0-doc are not relevant to mention, but still.
We could avoid the issue by trimming it right down to:
would be to install updated packages from there once available.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
