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lightdm-webkit-greeter package

Remove lightdm-webkit-greeter And Replace It With A New web-greeter Package

Bug #1642159 reported by Dustin Falgout
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Debian
New
Unknown
lightdm-webkit-greeter (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Release to remove it from: Zesty

Remove both the source package and all binary packages?: Yes

Package rdepends: None

Rationale:

lightdm-webkit-greeter uses the old webkitgtk (webkit 1) api which is currently in the process of being removed from the archive[1]. The greeter's code was updated two years ago to use the new webkit2gtk (webkit2) api. Since then it has been actively developed under the name lightdm-webkit2-greeter. In Feb 2017, the name was changed to web-greeter[2].

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-webkit-greeter/+bug/1588150
[2] https://github.com/antergos/web-greeter

See original description
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in lightdm-webkit-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Dustin Falgout (lots0logs)
description: updated
Dustin Falgout (lots0logs)
summary: - Remove lightdm-webkit-greeter And Replace It With A New lightdm-
- webkit2-greeter Package
+ Remove lightdm-webkit-greeter And Replace It With A New web-greeter
+ Package
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
tags: added: needs-packaging
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in debian:
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

unsubscribing ubuntu-archive; I don't believe there's any action for us to take here until web-greeter has been packaged under its new name (and probably transitional packages provided).

Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Removing packages from disco:
 lightdm-webkit-greeter 0.1.2-0ubuntu4 in disco
  lightdm-webkit-greeter 0.1.2-0ubuntu4 in disco amd64
  lightdm-webkit-greeter 0.1.2-0ubuntu4 in disco arm64
  lightdm-webkit-greeter 0.1.2-0ubuntu4 in disco armhf
  lightdm-webkit-greeter 0.1.2-0ubuntu4 in disco i386
  lightdm-webkit-greeter 0.1.2-0ubuntu4 in disco ppc64el
  lightdm-webkit-greeter 0.1.2-0ubuntu4 in disco s390x
Comment: Depends on obsolete webkit1; LP: #1710318, LP: #1642159
1 package successfully removed.

Changed in lightdm-webkit-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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