[WebKit-devel] Packaging for Debian

[Adrian von Bidder]

Heyho!

I'm working on Debian packages for webkit-kde and the kpart, I'd appreciate 
if you could look at the following issues.

CC:s appreciated, I don't read the list (I don't have the time to 
participate in the devlopment, so I'm just trying to help by allowing wider 
distribution and testing through the package.  I'll *try* to keep the 
package more or less up to date...)

Ok, here's:

 * svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/libs/webkitkde contains 
the kpart and 3 shared libraries.  I have currently created a package for 
the libraries (with -dev and -dbg package) and a package for the kpart, but 
I'm not quite sure if that's the right thing.

Do you view these libraries as integral part of the kpart with no external 
users?  If yes, I can probably just drop the library packages and not 
deliver the headers at all.

Are external users of the libraries anticipated?  Or are they just a 
possibility?  Do you plan to maintain the ABI compatibility by changing the 
compatibility if the ABI changes?  And if you do so:  will you be managing 
the soname versions of the three libraries independently or will you lock 
the three libraries to always have the same (soname) version?  (If the 
versions will be maintained independently, I'll split the package into one 
per library.)

 * linker flags:  Debian's library dependency scripts detected that webkit 
is probably linked unnecessarily against some libraries, see the warnings 
below.  How can I pass --as-needed to the linker to avoid these?  (They're 
libraries that are probably installed in any case due to other dependencies 
in KDE so it's not a bad problem, but I'd really like to keep my 
dependencies as clean as possible.)  Passing -DCMAKE_LD_FLAGS=... seems to 
be ignored or overridden.
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dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libQtGui.so.4 could be avoided if "debian/kpart-webkit/usr/lib/kde4/webkitkdepart.so" were not 
uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).                                               
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libQtSvg.so.4 could be avoided if "debian/kpart-webkit/usr/lib/kde4/webkitkdepart.so" were not 
uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).                                               
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libkdeui.so.5 could be avoided if "debian/kpart-webkit/usr/lib/kde4/webkitkdepart.so" were not 
uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).                                               
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libkdewebkit.so.1 could be avoided if "debian/kpart-webkit/usr/lib/kde4/webkitkdepart.so" were not 
uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).                                           
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libQtXml.so.4 could be avoided if "debian/kpart-webkit/usr/lib/kde4/webkitkdepart.so" were not 
uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).                                               
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libgcc_s.so.1 could be avoided if "debian/kpart-webkit/usr/lib/kde4/webkitkdepart.so" were not 
uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).                                               
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libkio.so.5 could be avoided if "debian/kpart-webkit/usr/lib/kde4/webkitkdepart.so" were not 
uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).                                                 
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libQtDBus.so.4 could be avoided if "debian/kpart-webkit/usr/lib/kde4/webkitkdepart.so" were not 
uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).                                              
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libQtNetwork.so.4 could be avoided if "debian/kpart-webkit/usr/lib/kde4/webkitkdepart.so" were not 
uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).                                           
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libQtWebKit.so.4 could be avoided if "debian/kpart-webkit/usr/lib/kde4/webkitkdepart.so" were not 
uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).                                            
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libQtSvg.so.4 could be avoided if "debian/libwebkitkde1/usr/lib/libkdewebkit.so.1.0.0 
debian/libwebkitkde1/usr/lib/libwebkitkde.so.1.0.0 debian/libwebkitkde1/usr/lib/libkdenetwork.so.1.0.0" were not uselessly linked against 
it (they use none of its symbols).
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libQtXml.so.4 could be avoided if "debian/libwebkitkde1/usr/lib/libkdewebkit.so.1.0.0 
debian/libwebkitkde1/usr/lib/libwebkitkde.so.1.0.0 debian/libwebkitkde1/usr/lib/libkdenetwork.so.1.0.0" were not uselessly linked against 
it (they use none of its symbols).
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libQtDBus.so.4 could be avoided if "debian/libwebkitkde1/usr/lib/libkdewebkit.so.1.0.0 
debian/libwebkitkde1/usr/lib/libwebkitkde.so.1.0.0 debian/libwebkitkde1/usr/lib/libkdenetwork.so.1.0.0" were not uselessly linked against 
it (they use none of its symbols).
++++

 * And finally, to satisfy my own curiosity as well as for adding it to my 
cautionary note in the package's README file:  Is there a roadmap on when/at 
what milestones webkitkde will be released from playground to a "real" 
version?

The package is currently waiting in Debian's NEW processing and is available 
from http://fortytwo.ch/debian/webkitkde (source and binary package) or 
https://fortytwo.ch/hg/pkg-webkitkde (mercurial repository) in the mean 
time.  (It is compiled against Debian unstable/sid.)

cheers
-- vbi

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