[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] webkitgtk: bump to version 2.16.5

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez@igalia.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> Thanks! I've had bumping webkitgtk on my TODO for a while as there old
 >> version is affected by a number of CVEs.

 > You're welcome! I am a WebKit developer myself (mostly working on the GTK+
 > port), and we have been trying that distributions ship WebKitGTK+ updates
 > promptly. At work we use Buildroot now and then, and we were just wondering
 > why an old version was still in use ? so I just went ahead and sent the patch
 > to update, hoping that it would go through :-)

Great, thanks for doing that! Our webkitgtk package could definately use
some love!

 >> I take it that you actively use webkitgtk? I personally don't. Would you
 >> be interested getting added to DEVELOPERS and looking after the package?

 > Sure thing, I can send a patch to add myself. For testing builds I usually
 > target the Raspberry Pi 3, which is what I have around always for testing.
 > Is this enough for me to try builds when making patches, or would you
 > recommend having some other board for development? Everyday WebKit development
 > is done on x86_64, so that's a very well tested target, too.

I think testing on a rpi3 would be fine, thanks.

 > On a different note, I am also considering to submit packages in the following
 > days for the WPE WebKit port [1], which has a focus on embedded and has been
 > recently upstreamed. This will be more than a single patch because the port
 > has graphics back-ends selectable at runtime. Do you think it would be
 > difficult to get those landed?

Sounds great - I don't see any reason why we wouldn't take them,
especially if you would help maintain them.

 > (We have a few downstream forks of Buildroot with build recipes, but they need
 > cleaning up in order to follow the contribution guidelines, and it would be
 > nicer to rebase those on ?master? when/if it gets the WPE packages in :D)

Ok, great!

 > [1] One of my work mates wrote a blog post about it a while ago:
 >     http://blogs.igalia.com/magomez/2016/12/19/wpe-web-platform-for-embedded/

Yes, I saw the blog back then - Nice work!

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard