At the end of October, I uploaded an NMU for swt-gtk to drop its unnecessary Build-Depends on webkitgtk. Only hours before the package was set to migrate to Testing so I could ask the Release Team to remove webkitgtk from Testing, Adrian Bunk uploaded a NMU to *add* a depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 (previously it was an undeclared dependency). I responded by opening RC bug 880470 since swt-gtk is now the only package keeping webkitgtk in Testing. This has now prevented either NMU from reaching Testing.
eclipse is the only reverse-depends of swt-gtk in Testing. I think it's widely known that Eclipse is so ancient in Debian as to not be very useful. However, it can't easily be removed either because there are hundreds of packages in its rdepends chain. It also is a very big project to update Eclipse to a current version. I believe that the Release Team can choose to ignore certain bugs that would otherwise be RC. I request that the Release Team investigate the situation. I propose that bug 879170 be ignored for Buster and that I be allowed to revert the swt-gtk 3.8.2-4.2 NMU. After ~5 days, swt-gtk should migrate to Testing, meaning that webkitgtk would no longer have any reverse dependencies or build-dependencies in Testing and webkitgtk should be removed from Testing then. References ========= https://bugs.debian.org/871964 (build-dep on webkitgtk https://bugs.debian.org/879170 (undeclared dep) https://bugs.debian.org/880470 (dep on webkitgtk) https://bugs.debian.org/681726 (eclipse upgrade bug, recent comments start at #113) Thank you, Jeremy Bicha
