Re: Proposal: remove insecure WebKitGTK+ packages for F27

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On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 11:28:00 -0000
"Christian Stadelmann" <genodeftest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I like this idea very much, thank you!
> 
> Independent to whether this proposal is accepted or not, I'd like to
> point out that it would be very useful to notify all maintainers of
> this issue, probably by filing a bug to every package that uses one
> of these packages (webkitgtk, webkitgtk3), adding a link to your
> statement above and tell the maintainer to take action: Contact
> upstream. If upstream will be porting the package to Webkit2Gtk, ship
> it in Fedora. If not, try to build without WebKit support. If that
> fails, deprecate a package by filing bugs to all packages relying on
> it.
> 
> Sadly, I don't know any  way to automate this and filing ~50 bugs is
> quite much.

I'll note that if someone is going to do this, please read and follow
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mass_bug_filing

Thanks. 

kevin

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