Control: severity -1 normal On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 11:03:05PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Package: ring > Severity: serious > Tags: sid buster > User: pkg-webkit-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: oldlibs libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 webkit1 > > Hi, > > ring has an optional Build-Depends on libwebkit2gtk-3.0-dev, which is > deprecated in favor of > libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev (provided in Debian by webkit2gtk). Please drop > the alternate Build-Depends so that we can remove the old, > unmaintained one. > > Please try to do soon as we're going to try to remove the old webkitgtk soon. > > I am filing this bug as "serious" since the old webkitgtk will not be > available in the next major stable release of Debian (codenamed > "buster"). >...
Lowering the severity: The unstable buildds are using the first alternative of build dependencies only, alternative build dependencies are a nop. They might be used for backports, and if stretch (or jessie) would not contain libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev the alternative build dependency would actually be the correct solution for backports. libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev is present in stretch (and jessie) so there is likely no reason for keeping it, but this is cruft and not an RC issue. > On behalf of the Debian WebKit Maintainers, > Jeremy Bicha cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed