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epiphany-browser package

please package epiphany-webkit 2.25.91 with updated webkit-gtk2 dependency

Bug #334242 reported by Martin-Éric Racine
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epiphany-browser (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

The epiphany-webkit currently present in Jaunty alpha (2.24) conflicts with the 2.25.91 epiphany-gecko and yet no updated epiphany-webkit is available, nor does it seem to be build upon the vastly improved webkit-gtk2 port that recently surfaced. In the interest of continuous testing of non-Gecko solutions, it would be desirable to keep the epiphany-webkit package up-to-date and to build it against recent webkit-gtk2 1.x releases. Thanks!

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

upstream dropped the webkit variant in the current tarballs and will not roll webkit tarballs until next cycle

Changed in epiphany-browser:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote :

By upstream, do you mean that the Debian package no longer has an epiphany-webkit build target or that GNOME developers flat out dropped support for Webkit until further notice?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

GNOME started working on the webkit backend as an optional build time choice but they never considered it to be usuable or something which should be distributed, they decided to switch fully to webkit though and cleaned the code, current version is still using gecko but the webkit variant there was buggy and they prefered dropping it there and focussing on the svn webkit version

Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in epiphany-browser:
status: New → Invalid
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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote :

Bruce, how exactly is this bug invalid? It's a perfectly valid wishlist bug; it just cannot be fulfilled at this moment until support for webkit is re-enabled in upstream tarballs.

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