Marking incomplete / unassigning; the Security Team NAKed this MIR in a
different bug already, so if it's still needed and deemed appropriate
(including the previous comment about how it means we might ship
multiple browsers), then please set this back to New.
** Changed in: epiphany-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: epiphany-browser (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) => (unassigned)
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to epiphany-browser in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1689317
Title:
[MIR] epiphany-browser-runtime
Status in epiphany-browser package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Availability
============
Co-maintained with Debian GNOME. Built for all supported architectures.
Changes from Debian:
- Update to 3.24
- 07_bookmarks.patch: Add Ubuntu default bookmarks (as seen in Firefox)
- add_new_window_action.patch: Backported from 3.25, improves Unity
integration a bit
- ubuntu_titlebars.patch: headerbar revert when run in Unity 7
Rationale
=========
Needed for Ubuntu to have a proper webapp feature, particularly for Amazon in
the default install (LP: #1688627)
The alternatives are to either
1) ship Chromium, or
2) water down the webapp feature to just be basically a bookmark which would
have poor desktop integration and wouldn't really be a webapp at all,
3) or drop the webapp feature from the default install
Security
========
The most recent fixed security bug is LP: #1661805 (fixed in 16.04 LTS and up)
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/epiphany-browser
https://launchpad.net/epiphany-browser/+cve
epiphany-browser is far smaller than either Firefox or Chromium since
most of its browser functionality (and security vulnerability) is
provided by webkit2gtk.
epiphany does not support HSTS https://bugzilla.gnome.org/628298
New in epiphany 3.24 is off-by-default support for integrated HTTPS
Everywhere using libhttpseverywhere (not yet packaged in
Debian/Ubuntu) https://git.gnome.org/browse/libhttpseverywhere
Epiphany currently has no support for webextensions. NPAPI plugins are
still supported.
Quality assurance
=================
The Desktop Bugs and Desktop Packages teams are already subscribed.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epiphany-browser
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=epiphany-browser
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=product%3A"epiphany";
No autopkgtest.
Tests aren't being run because of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/782246
Once that's fixed, we'll be sure to make failed tests fail the build.
Dependencies
============
There are 2 binary universe dependencies, browser-plugin-evince (for
integrated PDF viewing) and libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2 (for Flash support, but
see LP: #1689313). Both of those already have their sources in main and neither
is required for basic webapps.
Standards compliance
====================
3.9.8
Maintenance
===========
- Actively developed upstream (the primary developer is paid to work on
webkitgtk)
https://git.gnome.org/browse/epiphany-browser
dh7-style short rules, compat level 10
3.25.1 uses meson for building instead of autotools.
Debian packaging uses svn, but we're hoping to convert to git this year
(which will allow for Ubuntu branches):
https://sources.debian.net/src/epiphany-browser/unstable/debian/
Background information
======================
The intent here is to split epiphany-browser into 2 packages. The existing
package would only contain the .desktop and appstream metadata and depend on
the other package (provisionally named epiphany-browser-runtime) which would
contain /usr/bin/epiphany-browser and the rest of the app. This is what Fedora
does so that they can continue to have only one browser in the default install
(Firefox) but still support webapps.
Therefore, only epiphany-browser-runtime and epiphany-browser-data
would be in main; the other epiphany-browser package would remain in
universe.
I intend to upload this split version to Ubuntu but I want to see if I
can get feedback from Debian about the proposed package name and split
first.
epiphany was in main until Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" (no MIR).
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epiphany-browser/+bug/1689317/+subscriptions
--
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages
Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
