Backport woff2 to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| woff2 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
| Xenial |
In Progress
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Note to SRU Team
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This is a new source package for xenial.
We need libwoff1 and libwoff-dev promoted to main. The binary package named "woff2" should be in universe.
The approved MIR which mentions this will be done is LP: #1742743
This SRU depends on the brotli SRU LP: #1795077
Impact
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webkit2gtk 2.20 released in March 2018 dropped its embedded brotli and woff2 libraries to use the system libraries. Because that version is a security update, webkit2gtk has not had support for woff2 web fonts since then in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Test Case
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Build webkit2gtk against woff2 and verify that woff2 fonts appear to work on web sites.
Regression Potential
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N/A This is a new library. It has been used by webkit2gtk in Debian Testing for 6 months.
| Changed in woff2 (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Proposed package upload rejected | #1 |
An upload of woff2 to xenial-proposed has been rejected from the upload queue for the following reason: "package was stuck in the NEW queue for several years, never reviewed, xenial reaching the end of standard support.".