Source: epiphany-browser Version: 3.30.2-1 Severity: serious Tags: buster X-Debbugs-CC: mcatanz...@gnome.org
I was contacted today by the Epiphany upstream developer Michael Catanzaro. He requested that Debian Buster not include Epiphany. While he is ok with Epiphany being in Unstable (and Testing), he has serious concerns about how well Epiphany will work during the long lifecycle of a Debian Stable release when critical dependencies like glib-networking and gstreamer can't really be updated. As a specific example, YouTube's website changed a few months ago. To display that website, webkitgtk requires new features from gstreamer 1.14. Michael intends to make this request to other LTS distros too. He recommends that LTS users install the Flatpak version of Epiphany. (I imagine there will eventually be a Snap version of Epiphany for those who prefer that system.) Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
