[Slackbuilds-users] deprecation of webkit2gtk

[Bob Funk]

With the webkit2gtk/libsoup2 to webkit2gtk4.1/libsoup3 stuff you can
usually get things to build, but will get crashing at runtime of the
application or the entire gnome-shell when libsoup2/3 clash. I'll need some
time to set up the testing environment for that and your proposed updates
here. I am hoping to get to it on the weekend when I have some time to test
that, along with the other packages I have that relate to this change.

Regards,

Bob

On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 11:17 PM Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <
willysr at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

> >>Is it becoming a security risk to keep around?
> >>
> >>I ask because there's a whole bunch of my slackbuilds that depend on
> >>gnome-online-accounts which that will filter down through. Many of
> >>these slackbuilds are stuck on older versions on slackware 15.0 due to
> >>various libraries in 15.0 that are too old. It'll take some time to go
> >>through it all but the last time I looked into upgrading or migrating
> >>these to webkit2gtk4.1/libsoup3 I had a ton of problems and package
> >>build fails and needed more patches than I maintain packages. Shortly
> >>after those packages came out, gnome upstream migrated to a
> >>libsoup3/webkit2gtk stack so I expect anything with libsoup2 to break
> >>here, even if the underlying deps switch over. I'd like to upgrade to
> >>newer gnome packages, but then I need a bunch of other
> >>packages/libraries in stock Slackware to be upgraded to newer versions
> >>to do that and that's a mess too.
> >>
> >>If need be we can drop packages from the repo that I can't upgrade
> >>anymore along with dropping webkit2gtk, and then when next release
> >>comes around I can re-add builds (if I feel up to trying to chase fast
> >>moving gnome packages in a slow moving slackware stable world again!).
> >
> >
> >i managed to build gnome-boxes 43.5 and verify it using our CI
> >can you try confirm on this?
> >https://github.com/SlackBuildsOrg/slackbuilds/pull/17683
>
> gnome-online-accounts also updated to 3.46.0 and migrated to
> webkit2gtk4.1
> need confirmation please
> https://github.com/SlackBuildsOrg/slackbuilds/pull/17685
>
>
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> Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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