On 27/06/2023 16:18, Alberto Garcia wrote:
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 10:53:40AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
I have been testing it a bit using a buster VM but I don't think this
is very stable.

After removing ~/.cache/epiphany, ~/.local/share/epiphany and
~/.local/share/webkitgtk I am having problems to open web pages using
Epiphany. The problems go away if I revert WebKitGTK to the previous
version (2.38.6).

Thanks for testing it. That's obviously bad, and makes me ponder
stopping security updates for webkit on buster and EOL'ing
it. Although your experience is different than what Carlos
reported. I wonder if you managed to investigate it a bit and see
where the crashes came from (I can upload dbg packages if wanted).

I haven't investigated much further, I can do it if you want, but in
general I think we're stretching this too much and this is the time to
stop providing WebKitGTK security updates for buster. The switch to
2.40.x was bumpy for bullseye already (rememer the Evolution issues,
and see also #1036154).

Ack, given the changes (particularly switching to libc++) and the reported regressions, I think we just EOL at this point. I don't know if WebKit upstream would consider a longer support period on the stable branches or avoid breaking changes for a little longer than 3 years, but otherwise we'll have to eventually make this decision.

Cheers,
Emilio

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