Preparing for WebKit 1.0.2

[Mike Hommey]

Hi Alp,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 04:07:43AM +0100, Alp Toker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a heads up that we're going to start preparing for the 1.0.2 release,
> the second official release of WebKit (GTK+ port) in the next few days.
> 
> Some notes about this release:
> 
> 1) Will be branched off SVN trunk with as few modifications as possible.

This sounds like the version number should more be 1.1 instead of 1.0.2.

> 2) Should be built with the default HTTP and font backends (CURL and
> FreeType, not libsoup and not Pango).
> 3) Will be the first release to be provided as a conventional GNU tarball
> with make dist.
> 
> The API should have additions only and the ABI should not have been broken
> since 1.0.1. We need some help from the packaging team to:
> 
> 1) Confirm API/ABI stability and ensure that there are no regressions in
> applications and language bindings (C#, Python, perl?) building against
> libwebkit-1.0 in Debian.
> 
> 2) Confirm that 'make dist' produces complete tarballs with everything
> needed by distributions (both in terms of sources to build successfully and
> copyright licenses).
> 
> 3) Ensure that it builds and works on all supported architectures and with
> the latest toolchain. If there are any build fixes required for any CPU
> architectures or the latest binutils/gcc, we'd like to merge these patches
> upstream _before_ branching. This includes determining if the Debian fixes
> for 1.0.1 (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20662) are still relevant
> to 1.0.2 and if any new fixes are required.

Note that these patches should already be in bugzilla in some other
bugs.

> 4) Let us know of any major bugs reported in the WebKit packages themselves
> or in applications so we can make a last minute attempt to fix them.

Speaking of which, I sent you a mail a while ago, to which I didn't get
an answer, about CVE-2008-3950, which i'm not sure really applies (and
which description is actually strange).

> There are fixes going into webkit.org SVN trunk daily so remember to test
> with a current revision.

I'll try to take a look this week-end and push a svn trunk build to
experimental, but I can't guarantee it will get built on all
architectures.

> Looking forward to hearing back soon so we can get out a fantastic 1.0.2
> complete with some high-quality un-patched packages in Debian.
> 
> Cheers!

Cheers

Mike