[Bug 1710318] Re: Please remove webkit1 rdepends removed from Debian Testing

[Jeremy Bicha]

** Description changed:

  Several webkit1 reverse-dependencies have been removed from Debian
  Testing ('buster').
  
  While I'd like to see them removed from unstable too (or ported away
  from webkit1), that will take quite a while longer.
  
  Removed from testing
  ====================
  bibledit-gtk (note that the source package bibledit is ok and it ships the same package names)
  cyclograph
  gnome-web-photo
  gnucash
  gphedit
  luakit
  monodevelop
  monodevelop-database
  thawab
+ typecatcher
  xiphos
  xtrkcad
  webkitgtk-sharp3
  webkit-image
  zekr
  
- Scheduled for autoremoval on or after August 13
- ===============================================
- typecatcher
- 
- September 11
- ============
+ Scheduled for autoremoval on or after September 11
+ ===================================================
  sparkleshare
  webkitgtk-sharp3
  
  Not scheduled for removal in Debian yet
  =======================================
  blam
  webkit-sharp
  
  Never in Debian
  ===============
  lightdm-webkit-greeter
  Mike Gabriel from Debian MATE has begun preparing web-greeter (the renamed version of lightdm-webkit-greeter)
  
  See Also
  ========
  LP: #1588150
  LP: #1710439 webapps-applications uses webkit1 for build tests
  
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-webkit-
  maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
  
  Other Info
  ==========
  I think the most difficult one on this list for some people is gnucash. Fedora 27 (due ~November) is actually bundling webkit1 inside the gnucash packaging. There will be a beta version of gnucash ported to gtk3 available later this year. Hard to say whether it's better to offer a beta or just remove it entirely.
  
  The other hard one is empathy. It has been ported to webkit2 in git, but
  nobody at GNOME cares enough or has enough confidence in it to release a
  new version from git master. Fedora might handle this one.
  
  monodevelop may be useful to some people but I don't think Mono ever got
  around to releasing a stable gtk3 version of Mono.
  
  One more tricky one is boinc-manager. See
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/790222
  
  Arch Linux has already completely removed webkit1.

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