Bug#816800: [gazebo] Qt4's WebKit removal

[Anton Gladky]

Hi Dmitry,

thanks for the note. Upstream is testing Qt5-port
and is planning to release it shortly. So then we will
be able to fix this issue.

Best regards


Anton

2016-03-05 13:25 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at debian.org>:

> Source: gazebo
> Version: 7.0.0+dfsg-1
> User: debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qt4webkit-removal
>
> Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4's
> WebKit
> as announced in [announce].
>
> [announce] <
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg00001.html>
>
> Basically we are about to get the last Qt4 point release and upstream is
> migrating from WebKit to Blink in the Qt5 series, so we won't have much
> upstreams
> support for maintaining Qt4's WebKit (Qt5's WebKit is expected to stay
> supported
> until Qt6).
>
> In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending
> on
> the Qt4's WebKit library have to either get ported to Qt5 or eventually get
> removed from the Debian repositories.
>
> Therefore, please take the time and:
> - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a Qt5
> port of your application
> - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there
> are
> suitable alternatives for your users
> - if there is a Qt5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it
> - if both the Qt4 and the Qt5 versions already coexist in the Debian
> archives, consider removing the Qt4 version
>
> = Porting =
>
> Some of us where involved in various Qt4 to Qt5 migrations [migration] and
> we
> know for sure that porting stuff from Qt4 to Qt5 is much much easier and
> less
> painful than it was from Qt3 to Qt4.
>
> We also understand that there is still a lot of software still using Qt4.
> In
> order to ease the transition time we have provided Wheezy backports for
> Qt5.
>
> Don't forget to take a look at the C++ API changes page [apichanges]
> whenever
> you start porting your application.
>
> [migration] http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/packagingqtbasedstuff.html
> [apichanges] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/sourcebreaks.html
>
> If you have any questions, please reply to this mail and CC me.
>
> On behalf of the Qt4 maintainers,
>
> --
> Dmitry Shachnev
> --
> debian-science-maintainers mailing list
> debian-science-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-science-maintainers/attachments/20160312/acead20d/attachment.html>