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[Bug 1688395] Re: Remove Oxide, webbrowser-app and the Unity webapps

 

Not sure why oxide is being removed. Various qt-apps/oauth2-gui (search
in kubuntu's ppa, getdeb) are still using it. Didn't you get any
objection from them?

If it is compiling just fine with qt-5.9 (it does, I checked), Ubuntu
should keep it in universe.

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Title:
  Remove Oxide, webbrowser-app and the Unity webapps

Status in libunity-webapps package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in oxide-qt package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  These projects are discontinued, unsupported and should be removed.

  I haven't done any analysis of the deps or rdeps to find out if there
  is more to cull, or if there is some untangling to do.

  I know of two tasks other than removing packages -

   Unity ships an Amazon launcher in its preset favourites which
  launches a binary from unity-webapps-service. That should be removed.

   We need to keep providing the Amazon launcher by default (in GNOME
  Shell) - it should be reimplemented and added to Shell by default.

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