Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/phantomjs and dev-ruby/poltergeist
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 11:06:46
Message-Id: 20170605230605.099dfdc3@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/phantomjs and dev-ruby/poltergeist by Hans de Graaff
1 On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 09:11:27 +0200
2 Hans de Graaff <graaff@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > # Hans de Graaff <graaff@g.o> (05 Jun 2017)
5 > # Bundles obsolete and vulnerable webkit version.
6 > # Upstream has stopped development and recommends using
7 > # headless mode in >=www-client/chromium-59.
8 > # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #589994.
9 > www-client/phantomjs
10
11 Can phantomjs be simply masked for a longer period until the development
12 world has had an opportunity to catch up?
13
14 There's still respectable amounts of JS based testing code dependent on phantomjs
15 and all removing this means is "people who want to do this have to work this out
16 themselves"
17
18 1.5 Months from "We're not working on this" to "its dead jim, kill it from orbit"
19 is a bit fast for anything entrenched.
20
21 Chromium 59 is also, similarly, quite new.

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