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Bug 766680 - The webkit package should be rebuild against gtk+ 3.20.0+. It is built against an earlier package I believe. Causes white selected text and background under Evolution, in preview pane.
The webkit package should be rebuild against gtk+ 3.20.0+. It is built again...
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gtkmm
Classification: Bindings
Component: build
3.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gtkmm-forge
gtkmm-forge
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-05-19 19:42 UTC by Dave
Modified: 2016-05-20 09:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.17/3.18


Description Dave 2016-05-19 19:42:07 UTC 
Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
After a recent update in the testing channel, Evolution Email suddenly began selecting all text within teh preview pane as white, against a white background.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
Asked for help, and quickly watched the discussion go well beyond my understanding...  I believe I downloaded source, then rebult, but there was an error during the rebuild.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
No change, but as I said it never finished...

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
Would have been nice if Evolution, (latest in testing), stopped selecting text as white, on a white background.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                     2.20.0-1
ii  libc6                           2.22-7
ii  libcairo-gobject2               1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libcairo2                       1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libegl1-mesa [libegl1-x11]      11.2.2-1
ii  libenchant1c2a                  1.6.0-11+b1
ii  libfontconfig1                  2.11.0-6.4
ii  libfreetype6                    2.6.3-3+b1
ii  libgcc1                         1:6.1.1-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.34.0-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]        11.2.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.48.1-1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  1.8.1-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.8.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                      3.20.4-1
ii  libharfbuzz-icu0                1.0.1-1+b1
ii  libharfbuzz0b                   1.0.1-1+b1
ii  libicu55                        55.1-7
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0      2.4.11-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo                 1:1.4.2-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                  1.40.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0             1.40.1-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0               1.40.1-1
ii  libpng16-16                     1.6.21-4
ii  libsecret-1-0                   0.18.3-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                    2.54.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                    3.12.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                      6.1.1-3
ii  libwebp5                        0.4.4-1+b2
ii  libx11-6                        2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxcomposite1                  1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxdamage1                     1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxfixes3                      1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii  libxml2                         2.9.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libxrender1                     1:0.9.9-2
ii  libxslt1.1                      1.1.28-3
ii  libxt6                          1:1.1.5-1
ii  zlib1g                          1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 recommends:
ii  geoclue-2.0                2.4.3-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base  1.8.1-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.8.1-1

libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information
Comment 1 Dave 2016-05-19 21:26:21 UTC 
First para under "What led up to the situation?" should read as follows:

After a recent update, (05/15/16), in the testing channel, Evolution Email suddenly began coloring all selected text within the preview pane as white, against a white background.  

This also happens in the address portion of the preview pane, however that background is grey, and the white text is barley visible, against the grey background of the address area.  This appears to not be a problem in any other application on my system, only Evolution.  The evolution mail list, which is full of people much sharper than I in this matter, indicated the following as a probabl cause:

======CUT======

In any case, the pointer to the tracker was helpful. The right package
is webkitgtk, not webkit2gtk, and even I didn't find x86_64 build here:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=webkitgtk
I picked the amd64 instead and it led me here:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=webkitgtk&arch=amd64&ver=2.4.11-1&stamp=1460381568
It's a very long file, no need to download it all, just few first KB,
to be able to search for "libgtk-3" (quotes for clarity only), which
says:
   libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.10.0)
and later on:
   Get:335 http://mirror.1und1.de/debian unstable/main amd64 libgtk-3-dev amd64 3.18.9-1 [913 kB]

That explains it, there was used gtk+ 3.18.9, not 3.20.x. The webkitgtk
package should be rebuild against gtk+ 3.20.0+ to have the selected
colors fixed.
Comment 2 Murray Cumming 2016-05-20 09:05:30 UTC 
I guess you are trying to report a bug with Debian Linux. But this is the GNOME bug-tracker, not the Debian Linux bug tracker.