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Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable

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On Saturday, December 16, 2023 4:53:48 PM MST Patrick Franz wrote: 
> > Qt WebView is deprecated upstream.  It was based on the same Apple
> > WebKit source that WebViewGTK uses.  It was replaced quite a while
> > ago by Qt WebEngine, which is based on Google’s Chromium.  There is
> > no Qt 6 version of Qt WebView, so it will go entirely away at that
> > point.
> 
> There is one: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qt6-webview
> 
> Are you perhaps confusing Qt WebView with Qt WebKit ?

Yes, that was exactly my confusion.  Sorry for reading it wrong.  Qt WebView 
is the QML wrapper for Qt WebEngine.  And there definitely is a Qt 6 WebView.

> Usually, we try to avoid packaging the private headers. But for some
> packages, we just need to. And that's because other packages depend on
> them incl. other Qt submodules.
> We don't have a rule set in stone, but we usually package private
> headers when either another Qt submodule needs them (e.g. qtwebview
> needs the private headers of qtwebengine, hence we package them) or when
> important KDE components need them (e.g. qtwayland).

Looking at the list of private header files that ship in qtwebengine5-private-
dev, these all relate to the Qt specific bindings on top of the Chromium source 
code (these are the Qt specific APIs that are then translated into Chromium 
calls).  None of Chormium’s private headers are exposed, meaning that none of 
the private headers that are involved in the rendering or processing of 
websites are included.  It is nearly unthinkable that any of these Qt specific 
headers would be modified by a security update.  So, it should generally be 
possible to ship Qt WebEngine LTS updates without creating any problems for 
packages that built against these private headers.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@stoutner.com

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Bug#1057755: qt6-webengine: Support security updates in stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-08 02:40 +0100
  Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Patrick Franz <deltaone@debian.org> - 2023-12-13 21:20 +0100
    Re: Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-13 22:20 +0100
      Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Patrick Franz <deltaone@debian.org> - 2023-12-13 23:10 +0100
        Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-14 00:50 +0100
          Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org> - 2023-12-14 09:10 +0100
      Re: Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2023-12-14 02:40 +0100
        Re: Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-14 05:00 +0100
          Re: Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> - 2023-12-14 08:40 +0100
            Re: Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-14 08:50 +0100
              Re: Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> - 2023-12-14 09:10 +0100
                Re: Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-14 21:00 +0100
          Re: Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2023-12-14 13:40 +0100
          Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com> - 2023-12-15 02:30 +0100
            Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-16 21:30 +0100
              Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2023-12-17 00:20 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-17 00:40 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Patrick Franz <deltaone@debian.org> - 2023-12-17 01:00 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-17 01:30 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-17 02:10 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2023-12-17 11:20 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-18 18:40 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2023-12-20 15:10 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-20 20:30 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2023-12-20 21:30 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-20 22:10 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2023-12-21 11:10 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-21 21:00 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2023-12-21 22:00 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2023-12-22 23:00 +0100
                Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2023-12-20 14:40 +0100
  Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2023-12-15 00:30 +0100
  Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2023-12-15 09:50 +0100
    Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2023-12-15 20:30 +0100
  Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Ratchanan Srirattanamet <ratchanan@ubports.com> - 2023-12-23 15:10 +0100
  Bug#1057755: Qt WebEngine Security Support In Stable Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2023-12-24 12:00 +0100

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