Bug#784514: qtwebkit removal from python-qt4

Scott Kitterman debian at kitterman.com
Sun Jan 10 21:47:57 UTC 2016


On Saturday, January 09, 2016 07:44:14 PM Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> 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).

I've uploaded the change for this.  It'll hit New, of course, so keep your 
eyes peeled for it.

Scott K
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