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