[Slackbuilds-users] deprecation of webkit2gtk

[Bob Funk]

@willysr: I have my testing area set up and running now. I can confirm that
gnome-boxes-43.5 builds fine and runtime is all good still. However, we can
actually push this to gnome-boxes-50.0 with the webkit2gtk4.1 switch so I'd
like to do that instead.

I'll still be working through more packages tomorrow and testing against
gnome-online-accounts changes.

Now I see that you have your issue on github and already merged 43.5. I
could submit a PR for gnome-boxes-50.0 and get this through tomorrow or
next week if its too late now. I'm just a huge git expert so I'm not sure
if that conflicts with your now merged 43.5 version?

Also, there's probably more communication we're going to need to have
around other packages in this change. Would you prefer I continue with you
on github on that issue you have open? I'd be responding as 0xBOBF.

Thanks,

Bob

On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM Bob Funk <bobfunk11 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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