Hi,
With the release of WebKitGTK+ 2.40, the series currently in buster, 2.38, has
become EOL. Unfortunately 2.40 bumped the compiler and other library
requirements quite a bit, so a backport wasn't easy, but I've managed to do it.
It requires clang++-13 to build (which is presently in buster)
On 02/06/2023 14:17, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the release of WebKitGTK+ 2.40, the series currently in buster,
> 2.38, has become EOL. Unfortunately 2.40 bumped the compiler and other
> library requirements quite a bit, so a backport wasn't easy, but I've
> managed to do it. It
On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 02:17:37PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> I have prepared a repository at
>
> deb [allow-insecure=yes] https://people.debian.org/~pochu/lts/webkit/ ./
>
> I'd appreciate some testing of any webkit applications (epiphany-browser,
> evolution...) that you can.
I
Hi Berto,
On 19/06/2023 12:59, Alberto Garcia wrote:
On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 02:17:37PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
I have prepared a repository at
deb [allow-insecure=yes] https://people.debian.org/~pochu/lts/webkit/ ./
I'd appreciate some testing of any webkit applications (epi
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 10:53:40AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > I have been testing it a bit using a buster VM but I don't think this
> > is very stable.
> >
> > After removing ~/.cache/epiphany, ~/.local/share/epiphany and
> > ~/.local/share/webkitgtk I am having problems to open web
On 27/06/2023 16:18, Alberto Garcia wrote:
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 10:53:40AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
I have been testing it a bit using a buster VM but I don't think this
is very stable.
After removing ~/.cache/epiphany, ~/.local/share/epiphany and
~/.local/share/webkitgtk I am ha
On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 02:57:05PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Ack, given the changes (particularly switching to libc++) and the
> reported regressions, I think we just EOL at this point. I don't
> know if WebKit upstream would consider a longer support period on
> the stable branches or
On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 01:19:51PM +, Alberto Garcia wrote:
>...
> Bear in mind that supporting older distros means refraining from using
> newer versions of the libraries and build dependencies that Webkit
> uses. This is already complicated, but there's a bigger problem than
> that: it also m
On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 08:27:51PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> A recent compiler is always already available:
>
> Debian *stable distributions (including LTS) already add a new LLVM
> major version annually since that is required for the latest Rust
> every new Firefox ESR branch needs.
Thanks, I
