Bug#876940: boinc: Depends on libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5 which depends on webkit1

[Christian Beer]

> Note: With Debian's BTS you need to Cc the submitter if you want to
> ensure they see it - I only saw your reply because I happened to
> check in on the bug.
Noted, thanks.
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:21:03AM +0200, Christian Beer wrote:
>> There is already an upstream PR [1] that replaces wxWebView with
>> wxHtmlWindow. Maybe it's better to wait a bit for the PR and then use
>> this to patch 7.8.2 on Debian?
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/2093
> Sigh, I got the impression from Gianfranco that nobody upstream was
> working on this, or I wouldn't have spent time on a patch.
>
> Thanks for the link - I've followed up in the ticket above.
>
> If an upstream patch is actually being worked on but needs more time,
> we can drop boinc temporarily from testing and then it can reenter once
> patched.

Well, you are partly correct. Nobody from upstream is working on this.
The patch comes from the OpenSUSE maintainer and so far no committer
reviewed the PR.

I'm waiting on the recent upload to unstable on my desktop to test out
your patch with the debian package. If this is working I would like to
integrate this upstream. The big difference I see between Olly's patch
and jengelh's patch is the use of "wxUSE_WEBVIEW" which we need for the
Windows and Mac version since we don't want to drop webview support
there. I remember running across this in the past and found a place were
this was hardcoded in the BOINC code. Maybe this just needs to be
changed. I'll look into that.


Regards
Christian