[Slackbuilds-users] deprecation of webkit2gtk

[Fernando Lopez]

Bob Funk,

 I am on the same boat. I don't see the harm in keeping buildable old
packages that do not affect anything else. I think this
is more of a "Karen" kind of thing.

this is an email from one of the admins:
*"Hi Fernando,*









*Your submission for oneTBB replicates the existing libraries/tbbSlackBuild
which has been in the SBo repo since before the upstreamname change to
oneTBB. Your submission sources a different version(slightly older) than
the existing SlackBuild and unless there is asignificant reason to justify
having a second older version in therepo, your submission cannot be
approved.Regards,chris"*

On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM Bob Funk <bobfunk11 at gmail.com> 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!).
>
> Regards,
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 12:45 PM KB_SBo <sbo at linuxgalaxy.org> wrote:
>
>> On 9/10/26 06:35, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > if anyone can help testing their own script against webkit2gtk4.1, that
>> would
>> > be very helpful
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>>
>> I'm a bit slow to update, but so far boinc <- wxWidgets <- webkit2gtk4.1
>> works fine.
>>
>> -kb
>>
>>
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Regards,
    Fernando Lopez Jr.
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