On 25 July 2017 at 17:31, Khurshid Alam <khurshid.a...@linuxmail.org> wrote: > Not sure why oxide is being removed. Various qt-apps/oauth2-gui (search > in kubuntu's ppa, getdeb) are still using it. Didn't you get any > objection from them? > > If it is compiling just fine with qt-5.9 (it does, I checked), Ubuntu > should keep it in universe. >
oxide will not be maintained going forward to provide security support. As it can be used to view untrusted content, it should not be used anymore. I have not received objections about them yet, however the path forward is to port away from oxide. I do not see many things that depend on oxide-qt in the Ubuntu archive. THere is unity-webapps-qml (ported), webbrowser-app (to be dropped) and so on. There are no incentives to maintain this component for out-of-the-archive builds. To preserve working state in the ppa, you may wish to use copy-package script from ubuntu-archive-tools to copy the latest oxide-qt binaries from the Ubuntu archive into the affected PPAs. > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1688395 > > Title: > Remove Oxide, webbrowser-app and the Unity webapps > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libunity-webapps/+bug/1688395/+subscriptions -- Regards, Dimitri. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to libunity-webapps in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1688395 Title: Remove Oxide, webbrowser-app and the Unity webapps Status in libunity-webapps package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in oxide-qt package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: These projects are discontinued, unsupported and should be removed. I haven't done any analysis of the deps or rdeps to find out if there is more to cull, or if there is some untangling to do. I know of two tasks other than removing packages - Unity ships an Amazon launcher in its preset favourites which launches a binary from unity-webapps-service. That should be removed. We need to keep providing the Amazon launcher by default (in GNOME Shell) - it should be reimplemented and added to Shell by default. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libunity-webapps/+bug/1688395/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
