[Slackbuilds-users] deprecation of webkit2gtk

[Bob Funk]

I meant to say "I'm *not* a git expert", so I just wanted your input how to
proceed if I would add changes to this "issue".

Hope I didnt add confusion there!

Bob

On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM Bob Funk <bobfunk11 at gmail.com> wrote:

> @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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