On 04/08/14 15:20, Alberto Garcia wrote: > WebKitGTK+ 2.5.1 has just been published. This is the first > development release of the upcoming 2.6 series. > > WebKitGTK+ has two APIs: the classic one and the more recent > WebKit2. The classic one is now often referred to as "WebKit1". > > WebKit1 supports GTK+2 and GTK+3, while WebKit2 only supports GTK+3. > > In Debian we have packages for all three cases: > > libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 (WK1, GTK2) > libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 (WK1, GTK3) > libwebkit2gtk-3.0-25 (WK2, GTK3) > > The most important change of this new series is the removal of the > WebKit1 API. Bugfix releases of the 2.4.x series will be made for some > time, but otherwise it's expected that applications switch to WebKit2 > if they want to use the newest developments. > > Here's a blog post summarizing the situation: > > > http://blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/2014/08/01/webkitgtk-2-5-1-good-bye-webkit1/ > > Although WebKit1 is formally deprecated, there is still a significant > number of programs using it (midori, banshee, xxxterm, shotwell, > liferea, evolution, ...) so we need to keep the old packages around.
Yes. I started filing bugs against webkit1 rdeps. I only did the python-webkit rdeps so far, need to do the rest. > So we need to package both series separately (like we already do with > e.g. gtk+2.0 and gtk+3.0), we could have a new "webkit2gtk" package > with the new series. If I'm not wrong this needs a new ITP bug, right? An ITP is not needed. After all, this is just a new release of an existing package, with a different src name for technical reasons. The ITP won't hurt though, so feel free to file one. I also thought of renaming it to src:webkit2gtk, fwiw :-) > Note also that the ABI has changed, so applications need to be rebuilt > against the new series (there will be libwebkit2gtk-4.0-XX). Yeah. When libwebkit2gtk-3.0 has no rdeps, we can remove it and keep src:webkitgtk building webkit1 only (until that can also be removed). > If all this looks fine to you, I can prepare the ITP one of these > days. > > Opinions? Comments? Sounds good! Let me know if you want me to take a look at your changes. I can't work on this much until next month, but I can at least review it if that's needed. Cheers, Emilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gtk-gnome-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53e005b5.6090...@debian.org