Bug#807601: libreoffice-core and libreoffice-evolution still depend on libgtk2.0-0

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 01:21:46AM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > The (imho uneeded) "use npapi plugins inside LibreOffice" feature....
> 
> I didn't know about that. What plugins can be used inside LO?

I've no idea.

(I don't really care, though, in any way).

> > Probably depending on gtk2 since "the browsers (read: firefox/icewasel)" do,
> > which is wrong noadays. But It uses gtk itself:
> 
> Probably because some plugins use GTK+2 (e.g. Flash), hence the plugin process
> needs to use GTK+2 as well.

Yeah, maybe. Though as I also can see flash as the only relevant example,
why would anyone add flash videos? Maybe in Impress, but...

And given the steady security issues of flash...

> Reported this as https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96398

Thanks.

As said, I am sceptical about moving it into a -npapi-support package as
it would give more publicity to this little-known feature. (And would require
NEW)

If we want to get rid of the gtk2.0 dependency in -core we probably need to
patch it out completely.
(As you say in the upstream report NPAPI is deprecated, so I've no
idea why they kept this when they removed the NPAPI browser plugin... I wondered
already at that time because it makes no sense to me...)

Regards,

Rene