Bug#990754: unblock: wpewebkit/2.32.1-1
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package wpewebkit
webkit2gtk was unblocked last month, testing has the most recent
stable version and we will provide security updates during the
lifetime of bullseye, as we already did during buster.
wpewebkit is another official port of webkit. It's maintained by the
same team, follows a very similar release schedule and numbering
system, shares most of the code and almost all CVEs fixes apply to
both ports.
Because of this it won't take me too much effort to prepare security
updates for wpewebkit so the Debian security team is proposing that we
also provide them.
If we do this we should unblock the package and put the latest stable
version in testing. At the moment the only user of wpewebkit in Debian
is cog, which is a simple, single-window web browser, developed and
released by the same team. So we should also unblock cog and the two
other libraries that are part of the wpewebkit releases: libwpe and
wpebackend-fdo (I don't know if you need separate bugs to unblock
those).
If we don't do this then it's probably a good idea to mention in the
release notes that wpewebkit is not covered by security updates.
unblock wpewebkit/2.32.1-1
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