Bug 1375834

Summary:	emacs must not depend on webkitgtk3
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro+wrong-account-do-not-cc>
Component:	emacs	Assignee:	Jan Synacek <jsynacek>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	jchaloup, jonathan.underwood, jsynacek, msekleta, phracek
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Description Michael Catanzaro 2016-09-14 05:09:56 UTC

The webkitgtk3 package will be removed from rawhide after Fedora 26 is branched due to the high number of unfixed security vulnerabilities. You must remove this dependency or your package will not be present in Fedora 27.

Please refer to [1] for a FAQ on this matter and be advised that for some packages this may require a substantial amount of work.

Note to news media: emacs is not going to be removed from Fedora. There is a configure flag that can be used to remove the dependency if it's not ported in time for F27. Carry on.

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/AKVB363GFCHHJ5MTHGVYHYT6NLLTF5VM/

Comment 1 Jan Synacek 2016-09-14 11:33:39 UTC

(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #0)
> Note to news media: emacs is not going to be removed from Fedora. There is a
> configure flag that can be used to remove the dependency if it's not ported
> in time for F27. Carry on.

LOL!

Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2016-11-05 19:26:59 UTC

A reminder that webkitgtk3 will be retired from rawhide within the next 3-4 months. It would be great to remove the build dependency and start building emacs using --without-xwidgets to avoid emacs being automatically retired when this happens.

Comment 3 Jan Synacek 2016-11-22 11:13:49 UTC

Following commit http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=d781662873f228b110a128f7a2b6583a4d5e0a3a, the upstream Emacs already uses the new API. I'm going to wait a bit to see if a new version comes out before webkitgtk3 gets retired. If there's no new version by then, I'm going to remove the configure option and reintroduce it later with the new Emacs version.

Comment 4 Kevin Kofler 2017-01-24 00:52:23 UTC

Why don't you just backport the commit?

Comment 5 Michael Catanzaro 2017-02-22 20:02:54 UTC

(In reply to Kevin Kofler from comment #4)
> Why don't you just backport the commit?

I'd strongly recommend doing this now.

Comment 6 Jan Synacek 2017-02-27 11:20:09 UTC

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/emacs.git/commit/?id=1116d1bc15d82380f09f9e41d9c44c3148b4160c