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wpewebkit: Fails to build (a required package was not found)

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 53197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kiasoc5 <at> tutanota.com
Subject: bug#53197: [PATCH 0/3] Update WPEWebkit to 2.34.3
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:30:35 -0500

On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 08:36:45AM +0100, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> Hi Leo, hi Guix,
> 
> the following patches update libwpe and wpebackend-fdo to 1.12.0 and
> wpewebkit to 2.34.3.  I checked that all three of them build, but I so
> far haven't
> 1. done a libsoup-minimal-2 variant -- there's no dependents of
>    wpewebkit yet, so it's somewhat pointless.
> 2. checked whether the AVX patches from WebkitGTK need to be carried
>    over, or
> 3. tested how this impacts our WebkitGTK builds.
> 
> I'd appreciate if someone could help me out here, because Webkit builds
> have a high chance of killing whatever else is running on my machine at
> the moment -- or my machine if that fails.

Thanks, I'm testing the build of WebKitGtk now.

I noticed that GTK 4 depends on wpebackend-fdo. For now, we can change
GTK 4 on the master branch, but eventually wpebackend-fdo will be a
package that requires grafting to keep up to date.

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