Bug#871964: swt-gtk: Build-depends on libwebkitgtk-dev which is deprecated

Adrian Bunk bunk at debian.org
Tue Oct 17 21:12:44 UTC 2017


On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 11:43:58PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>...
> The package does build successfully without the libwebkitgtk-dev
> build-dependency.

But the resulting library will still dynamically load it.

> It feels to me like the libswt-webkit-gtk-3-jni was already broken
> since it doesn't have a dependency on any webkitgtk library

The missing dependency sounds like a bug.

> (I think
> the correct one would be libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 but that is still part of
> the deprecated libraries which are being removed.)

It does use libwebkitgtk-1.0-0:
https://sources.debian.net/src/swt-gtk/3.8.2-4/webkitgtk.h/

I just tried, and it does work when libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 is installed  
(and fails without).

>...
> On behalf of the Debian WebKit Maintainers,
> Jeremy Bicha

cu
Adrian

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