Bug#784514: qtwebkit removal from python-qt4

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Sebastiaan,

On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 12:50:48PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Unfortunately we can't switch QGIS to Qt5 because qscintilla2 doesn't
> support Qt5 for Python 2 and QGIS upstream doesn't support Python 3
> yet as discussed earlier in this bugreport.
>
> This means that qgis will be removed from stretch and that's a shame,
> but not something I can prevent.

If lack of QScintilla for Python 2 is the only thing that prevents you from
porting to Qt 5, I think we can add these packages.

Scott, what do you think?

Python 2 is bad, but Qt 4 is even worse because it's already unsupported by
upstream (unlike Python 2).

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Dmitry Shachnev
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