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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 26390@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26390: Guitarix: Don't use webkitgtk-2.4
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:31:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuhk1jsl.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170407115754.GA21115@jasmine>


Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> Webkitgtk-2.4 is unmaintained upstream and contains a large number of
> security vulnerabilities. The webkitgtk developers have asked
> distributions to stop offering it. [0]
>
> This patch removes webkitgtk-2.4 from guitarix. Guitarix builds and
> starts without; I don't know what features are disabled.
>
> Ricardo, what do you think?

Sounds good to me!

Webkitgtk was added only somewhat recently to the dependencies.  When I
added it some time ago it was not optional AFAIR.  If you’ve built it
successfully without webkitgtk that’s great.

It was used for a built-in plugin browser, I think.

--
Ricardo

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-07 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-07 11:57 bug#26390: Guitarix: Don't use webkitgtk-2.4 Leo Famulari
2017-04-07 12:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-04-07 13:38   ` Leo Famulari

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