Debian Package Requires Incorrect Dependency; Warning report

[BlueNalgene]

Describe the bug The Ubuntu package does not list Webkit2 4.1 as a dependency, leading to warnings. The package dependency should either demand gir1.2-webkit2-4.1 or not perform the Webkit2 version check.

To Reproduce

1. Install rednotebook from the PPA without any custom dependencies.
2. Run and observe warning.

Expected behavior

No warning.

Screenshots

Versions:

• RedNotebook version : 2.29.6
• Operating system and version:

  OS: Kubuntu 22.04.2 LTS x86_64 
  Host: TITAN Standard 
  Kernel: 5.15.0-76-generic 
  Uptime: 9 days, 12 hours, 9 mins 
  Packages: 3182 (dpkg), 12 (flatpak), 13 (snap) 
  Shell: bash 5.1.16 
  Resolution: 3840x2160, 3840x2160, 2560x1440 
  DE: Plasma 5.24.7 
  WM: KWin 
  Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] 
  Icons: [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3] 
  Terminal: konsole 
  Terminal Font: Hack 12 
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics (16) @ 3.300GHz 
  GPU: AMD ATI 06:00.0 Cezanne 
  GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q 
  Memory: 8816MiB / 31487MiB

Log output when reproducing bug

INFO     Using GtkSourceView 4
Adding /usr/share/rednotebook to sys.path
INFO     Available versions of the WebKit2 namespace: ['4.0']
WARNING  WebKit2 4.1 not found. Trying to use arbitrary version. Error message: 'Namespace WebKit2 not available for version 4.1'
/usr/share/rednotebook/rednotebook/util/filesystem.py:59: PyGIWarning: WebKit2 was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('WebKit2', '4.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
  from gi.repository import WebKit2
INFO     Loaded version of the WebKit2 namespace: 4.0
INFO     Locale path: /usr/share/locale
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[kathenas]

Hi,

The runtime dependency has to be on an API version webkit package and that is currently:

gir1.2-webkit2-4.0

The reason for this in Debian was to allow backports for Debian 11 (bullseye). Now we have the recent release of a new Debian stable 12 (bookworm) which has gir1.2-webkit2-4.1, the dependency for future releases can be updated.

Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) has gir1.2-webkit2-4.1, so this is not an issue.

This change would end any backports for distribution versions prior to Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04. I do not see this as a problem for desktop/rednotebook users and users of Debian or Ubuntu as I would assume the use of recent versions.

I will personally change the dependency to gir1.2-webkit2-4.1 in the next release that goes into Debian and in turn that will be imported into Ubuntu. For Ubuntu 22.04.x I will prepare a backport and get it sponsored in.

Regards

Phil

[kathenas]

Hi,

The runtime dependency has to be on an API version webkit package and that is currently:

gir1.2-webkit2-4.0

The reason for this in Debian was to allow backports for Debian 11 (bullseye). Now we have the recent release of a new Debian stable 12 (bookworm) which has gir1.2-webkit2-4.1, the dependency for future releases can be updated.

Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) has gir1.2-webkit2-4.1, so this is not an issue.

This change would end any backports for distribution versions prior to Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04. I do not see this as a problem for desktop/rednotebook users and users of Debian or Ubuntu as I would assume the use of recent versions.

I will personally change the dependency to gir1.2-webkit2-4.1 in the next release that goes into Debian and in turn that will be imported into Ubuntu. For Ubuntu 22.04.x I will prepare a backport and get it sponsored in.

Regards

Phil

See PR: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/rednotebook/pull/716

This will resolve the issue (you may need to manually install gir1.2-webkit2-4.1), but lead to an additional testing time requirement.

Regards

Phil