Update to the upstream 1.12.1 bugfix version

The current version in Kinetic and Lunar are newer

It looks like (for Jammy, at least) there is an in-archive consumer of libwpebackend-fdo-1.0-1 - cog. We need at least a minimal smoke test for SRU verification, and that should suffice. I don't have a Jammy system handy, and cog isn't in the archives post-Jammy - could someone please cook up a minimal test case using cog?

@Chris, I've tried that bug 'cog' seems to just not be working, bug #1970779 has some details

$ cog http://www.ubuntu.com

(cog:8292): Cog-WARNING **: 09:19:22.193: Cannot create platform: Could not find an usable platform module
wpe: could not load the impl library. Is there any backend installed?: libWPEBackend-default.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Abandon (core dumped)

Trying to force the platform or under X or Weston doesn't change the behavour

Hello Sebastien, or anyone else affected,

Accepted wpebackend-fdo into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpebackend-fdo/1.12.1-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

I've rebuilt webkitgtk the wpe support enabled in a ppa, built using proposed and the package from this SRU

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+sourcepub/14746595/+listing-archive-extra

testing epiphany-browser with wpebackend-fdo 1.12.1-0ubuntu1 browsing some websites works as expected, including playing videos on youtube. I'm marking it as verified

This bug was fixed in the package wpebackend-fdo - 1.12.1-0ubuntu1

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wpebackend-fdo (1.12.1-0ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * New bugfix version (lp: #2015543)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:50:27 +0200

The verification of the Stable Release Update for wpebackend-fdo has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.