[Freewx-maint] Bug#786986: Wxwidgets webview link flags problem

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:37:29AM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> I do not think I'll have time to dig into this, and I honestly fail to
> see why this isn't an upstream issue.

Upstream either has webview enabled or doesn't.

In Debian we have webview enabled, but package the files from it in a
separate binary package (because they pull in a lot of stuff).

So we have a situation where webview was enabled but its files aren't
installed.  That isn't a situation that upstream has.

The only arguably upstream issue here is that webview is in the list of
default libraries.  But I've already reported that upstream and they've
already fixed it in trunk:

http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16291

This isn't something they can sanely change mid 3.0.x.

> (BTW poedit dropped webview support, so I don't even care anymore
> about this bug)

Since poedit was the only reverse dependency, and webview depends on an
obsolete webkitgtk version which won't be in stretch (#790222), I've
disabled the webview packages again in 3.0.2-3.

If something else wants them, it'll need to wait until we switch wx to
gtk3, which I'm currently hoping to do along with the transition to wx
3.2.

Cheers,
    Olly