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Bug#479851: marked as done (qt4-x11: should use external webkit library)

Your message dated Wed, 7 May 2008 02:02:07 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#479851: qt4-x11: should use external webkit library
has caused the Debian Bug report #479851,
regarding qt4-x11: should use external webkit library
to be marked as done.

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Package: qt4-x11
Version: 4.4.0~rc1-5
Severity: important

qt4-xll should use the already-packaged libwebkit-1.0 library, rather than
repackaging webkit separately.

this has a couple major advantages.  it reduces duplicated data (on the
debian archives, on the user's system, and in memory).  also, it reduces
duplicated maintenance overhead (only one maintainer needed to support
the single code base).  and finally, only one package needs to be
updated to fix security issues (see CVE-2008-1025 [1] where the webkit
library already has the fix, but qt4-x11 remains vulnerable).

[1] http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-1025

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On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Package: qt4-x11
> Version: 4.4.0~rc1-5
> Severity: important
>
> qt4-xll should use the already-packaged libwebkit-1.0 library, rather than
> repackaging webkit separately.

$ apt-cache show libwebkit-1.0-1 | grep ^Description
Description: Web content engine library for Gtk+

 - thus closing.

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