[Slackbuilds-users] deprecation of webkit2gtk

[Willy Sudiarto Raharjo]

>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


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Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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