Bug#828031: qgis: QtWebKit not found by extensions

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:01:17 +0200 =?utf-8?b?QmFsw6F6cyBCw6Fyw6FueQ==?=
<balazs at tud.at> wrote:
> Package: qgis
> Version: 2.14.3+dfsg-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> since a few days, QGIS isn't able to load modules that depend on QWebView
> anymore.
> 
> This affects e. g. the important OpenLayers module and happens on two Debian
> Testing machines.

Hi Balázs,

The QGIS project is aware of the removing of this important Python
module (QtWebKit) from Debian testing, and for QGIS itself there have
been some changes to handle this.

This means some functionality is missing, but core functionality should
still be ok.

The OpenLayers-plugins is an external plugin. I hope in your work you
can use the QuickMapServices-plugin as an alternative.

In the view of future, we hope to be able to use QtWebKit again in QGIS
3.0 which will be the next version after 2.16 and be based on Qt5 and
use python3...

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde