Package: libswt-webkit-gtk-3-jni Version: 3.8.2-4.2 X-Debbugs-CC: b...@debian.org Severity: serious Tags: sid buster User: pkg-webkit-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 webkit1
The recent swt-gtk/3.8.2-4.2 NMU fixed an RC bug by introducing another RC bug. I'm a bit upset because it also clobbered my 3.8.2-4.1 NMU one day before it was going to migrate to testing and I was not CC'd on the 4.2 NMU notice ahead of time. Because the 4.2 upload introduces a RC bug, it can't migrate to testing unless this RC bug is ignored. So the question for the Release Team will be which RC bug to ignore: https://bugs.debian.org/879170 or this one. Note that libswt-webkit-gtk-3-jni has only one direct reverse dependency, eclipse-rcp. But my initial analysis at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681726#130 shows that it isn't really practical to remove eclipse-rcp from testing because of the huge number of reverse depends. See also https://bugs.debian.org/879228 for libswt-webkit-gtk-4-jni which only has one reverse-dependency, tuxguitar, so it is solvable by either removing that library and tuxguitar or fixing its webkit2gtk support. Either way, I don't think that needs to be a blocker to webkitgtk's removal. libswt-webkit-gtk-3-jni depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, which is deprecated in favor of libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (provided in Debian by webkit2gtk). Please drop this dependency so that we can remove the old, unmaintained one. Please try to do soon as this is the final package blocking the webkitgtk removal! 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"). If you have any question don't hesitate to ask. On behalf of the Debian WebKit Maintainers, Jeremy Bicha