[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 191196] [WPE][GTK] Remove either the jhbuild or the flatpak environment

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191196

--- Comment #5 from Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Adrian Perez from comment #4)
> JFTR, for the desync between build rules between JHBuild and Flatpak,
> reviewers should r- any patch that touches one but not the others.
> Whether we enforce keeping them in sync or not, is completely up to
> us ;-)

I had considered doing this several times as people have proposed several patches updating only one and not the other. GStreamer, in particular, has become desynced between the two environments. But ultimately I decided the flatpak environment is secondary and allowed to become stale until it is ready to replace the jhbuild.

(In reply to Adrian Perez from comment #3)
> On top of the two issues, you mentioned:
> 
>  - Bug #192702: If you run update-webkit{gtk,wpe}-flatpak more than once,
>    all runs after the first one fail.
> 
>  - Figuring out a way to use the Flatpak “root” file system as a sysroot
>    for building and running tests, but *without* using the Flatpak sandbox.
>    The motivation is twofold: in one hand, this would allow actualy testing
>    the Bubblewrap-based sandbox; and on the other hand this would allow
>    running bots on containers (as we are already doing now).

OK, I agree these are both important. We currently do not have a concrete plan to work on them. It's very important to create such a plan ASAP.

Hopefully such a plan is created very soon. Otherwise, I think it's really time to remove the flatpak environment until such time it's ready to be relanded, because:

 * There has been no progress on this bug in the two months since I reported it; and
 * The flatpak environment has been unusable for several weeks now without anyone seeming to care, bug #190241

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