Bug#828031: qgis: QtWebKit not found by extensions

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: tags -1 upstream

Hi Balázs,

On 06/24/2016 08:01 AM, Balázs Bárány wrote:
> since a few days, QGIS isn't able to load modules that depend on QWebView
> anymore.

This has been an issue for more than a few days. QtWebKit support has
been removed from python-qt4 which was uploaded to unstable on May 25th.

The QGIS developers promised to fix the issues caused by the removal of
QtWebKit and the update to osgEarth 2.7. They have not kept their word,
leaving qgis broken in testing & unstable.

We may be able to switch to Qt5 with the upcoming QGIS 2.16 release
which should have dual Qt4/PyQt4/Python2 and Qt5/PyQt5/Python3 support. [0]

That is a suboptimal solution though, because it forces us off the LTR
releases which are most suitable for Debian.

I'm sick and tired of dealing with the refusal from the QGIS developers
to handle changes in their dependencies. They only care for their own
packages. I'm considering dropping qgis from Debian, let the users deal
with QGIS upstream themselves.

I'll forward this issue upstream, but don't get your hopes up for a fix
in any future 2.14 LTR.

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2016/02/msg00036.html

Kind Regards,

Bas

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