From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
To: "André A. Gomes" <andremegafone@gmail.com>
Cc: 67655@debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: [bug#67655] [PATCH]: Update webkitgtk to 2.42.3
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:56:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b6dd4c5d92f9a750dda334ecabaa8dfe948d74b.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y1dz3kgq.fsf@gmail.com>
Am Dienstag, dem 12.12.2023 um 10:15 +0200 schrieb André A. Gomes:
> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The webkitgtk-* family collectively accounts for more than 600
> > rebuilds, three of them being webkit (i.e. you'll wait 10 hours
> > while your machine nearly dies grasping for more RAM). Even with a
> > graft, I'd first verify that it builds on CI.
> >
> > Plus, I don't see how this series accounts for webkitgtk-next, i.e.
> > the GTK4 variant. We have that over at gnome-team already, but a
> > nontrivial amount of work went into getting it into a functional
> > state.
> > I've cherry-picked them onto a wip-webkit branch now. Hopefully we
> > can merge that faster than gnome itself.
>
> As Leo mentioned, WebKitGTK updates are paramount from a security
> point of view. But I understand the constraints that Liliana
> mentions. Is there anything I can do to help? It's hard for me to
> grasp the full picture that you describe. Thanks.
Looking at QA [1] and fixing freshly failing builds as they come along
would be a great help. Vivien mentioned in both IRC and XMPP that our
old Epiphany fails, so we gotta bump that to a newer version. I don't
see any other gnome-critical rebuilds (yet), but am staying tuned for
more to come.
Cheers
[1] https://qa.guix.gnu.org/branch/wip-webkit
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-06 8:10 [bug#67655] [PATCH]: Update webkitgtk to 2.42.3 André A. Gomes
2023-12-08 18:08 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-12-08 18:41 ` Leo Famulari
2023-12-08 19:55 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-12-12 8:15 ` André A. Gomes
2023-12-12 17:56 ` Liliana Marie Prikler [this message]
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