Bug#784514: qtwebkit removal from python-qt4

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 09-01-16 19:00, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On January 9, 2016 11:44:14 AM EST, Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at debian.org> wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> I can add it.

Awesome, thanks!

Kind Regards,

Bas

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