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[Dimitri John Ledkov <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25 July 2017 at 17:31, Khurshid Alam <khurshid.alam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

oxide will not be maintained going forward to provide security
support. As it can be used to view untrusted content, it should not be
used anymore.
I have not received objections about them yet, however the path
forward is to port away from oxide.

I do not see many things that depend on oxide-qt in the Ubuntu
archive. THere is unity-webapps-qml (ported), webbrowser-app (to be
dropped) and so on.

There are no incentives to maintain this component for
out-of-the-archive builds. To preserve working state in the ppa, you
may wish to use copy-package script from ubuntu-archive-tools to copy
the latest oxide-qt binaries from the Ubuntu archive into the affected
PPAs.

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

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1688395

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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