Remove Oxide, webbrowser-app and the Unity webapps

Moving from bug #1649310

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 08:02:57PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:20:01PM -0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > Notable things not listed:
> > * oxide/webbrowser app, still in use for amazon "app"
>·
> What pulls in the amazon app? I have heard that oxide is definitively not
> on the supported list for 17.10+.

It's /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-amazon-default.desktop, so...

  application://ubuntu-amazon-default.desktop is in Unity's favourites
  by default

and the chain is

 unity-webapps-service -> webapp-container -> webbrowser-app

I heard that we need to keep this, so if it is confirmed that Oxide, the
web browser and the Unity webapps are to be removed, then we will need
to provide this in another way. The desktop team will do that. (An
initial implementation might just be opening a new tab in Firefox.)

Initially assigning xnox, but feel free to move that.

(old bug about part of this - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webapps-applications/+bug/1517509 feel free to mark dup)

Are all of these unsupported? I know that the signage effort was initially using webapp-container (part of webbrowser-app) with mir. Even if webbrowser-app were removed, oxide-qt might still be interesting for signage/etc since it can be used with upstream Qt.

I've not heard an official statement on these as they relate to signage (et al), so I thought I'd ask.

I believe I heard this from Will Cooke who is on Cc:, so hopefully he can clarify.

Oxide can be removed. It's no longer supported.

On Thu, 4 May 2017 at 18:25, Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I believe I heard this from Will Cooke who is on Cc:, so hopefully he
> can clarify.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1688395
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> Title:
> Remove Oxide, webbrowser-app and the Unity webapps
>
> Status in libunity-webapps package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in oxide-qt package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> 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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See https://launchpad.net/bugs/1688627 for discussion about the Amazon app replacement.

[Expired for oxide-qt (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Expired for libunity-webapps (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Are these really expired?

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.

On 25 July 2017 at 17:31, Khurshid Alam <email address hidden> 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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Regards,

Dimitri.

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Comment: obsoleted product, incompatible with Qt5.9; LP: #1712874
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  liboxideqtquick0 1.21.5-0ubuntu1 in bionic armhf
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Comment: obsoleted product, security sensitive, unmaintained; LP: #1688395
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