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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br>
<br>
I'm not sure I fully understand the issue. So I'll try to explain
what I understood.<br>
<br>
Debian is going to remove the package "libwebkitgtk-1.0-0" in
testing (buster) which will also remove the package
"libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5" which is a dependency for package
"boinc-manager" which means "boinc-manager" will have a broken
dependency.<br>
<br>
One possible fix is to rebuild the package
"libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5" using GTK3 which means all wxWidgets
packages need to be rebuilt too. Since "boinc-manager" is the only
package using "libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5" you want to rather drop
webview support on Debian than rebuilding wxWidgets.<br>
<br>
So our (BOINC's) options are rather limited in order to keep
"boinc-manager" working on Debian. We can start to look for an
alternative to wxWebView or disable it on Debian. But disabling is
not an option since we use wxWebView to communicate to the users
of boinc-manager via this simple but effective in-app browser. We
also have a tool that uses wxWebView to show a HTML page as a
screensaver which is easy for scientific projects to use.<br>
<br>
Please correct me if I'm wrong and/or give some more options. I'm
a bit puzzled as to the fact that this feature of wxWidgets is not
used by more packages. Is there a history available which packages
depended on "libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5" in the past so one can find
out what they did?<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Christian<br>
<br>
On 05.07.2017 16:18, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hello All,
(boinc developers, this is a serious issue for Debian and I think this will become an issue
for other distributions soon),
libwebkitgtk-1 is going to be removed soon from the archive, and wxwidgets webview depends on it.
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 08:23:08PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Olly Betts <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:olly@survex.com"><olly@survex.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">It seems the only rdep needing the webkit integration is boinc, so
dropping support would not cause widespread pain - if it gets to the
stage where wxwidgets3.0 is blocking removal of webkitgtk, I suggest
we just drop the dependency and the libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5, etc
packages and get boinc to update not to use them.
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<pre wrap="">
Wouldn't libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5 need to be renamed anyway? So maybe
it's ok to drop it and later you can reintroduce it with the new name
when you're ready to do your transition.
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<pre wrap="">
If there's an ABI change, it'll need renaming. It's not clear to me if
there will be one without further investigation.
Either way, dropping it would affect boinc in unstable while it's gone,
which is really more of a concern than a trip through NEW. I don't know
what boinc does with webview, so I'm not sure if removing it renders
boinc almost useless or if it only affects some minor features, but
previously Gianfranco seemed unkeen on dropping it. I've CCed him.
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<pre wrap="">
webview is used by boinc for notifications coming from server side,
does wxwidgets offer some better maintained webview support?
we might switch to gtk-3, this will switch the
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 dependency to
libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, but I'm not sure how much we will gain from that move.
G.</pre>
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