[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#784493: Qt4's WebKit removal: rising severity to important

[Paul Gevers]

Hi all,

On 20-11-16 17:59, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> 2016-11-17 10:40 GMT+01:00 Abou Al Montacir <abou.almontacir at sfr.fr>:
>> I've sent a mail but no answer, I'm going to ask again

Lazarus needs porting to Qt5 (symbol names changed at the minimum,
probably more needed). I asked the question on progress on the qt lcl list¹.

>> I am trying to figure out what I need to properly do on the package to
>> upload it to experimental and try out if lazarus can be build with it.
>> If so, I plan to also build winff and check if that than works properly.
>>
>> I think this could give a quite valid answer to our question, if this works
>> then let's go.
> 
> Sounds like a good plan.

And it doesn't work. Work upstream and/or in Debian in the Lazarus
package is required to get this going. Not sure if I am capable of doing
that.

>> @Matthias, should we reduce the amount of exported symbols even further,
>> now we have a change with a soname bump?
> 
> This would help a lot - in theory, we could simply hide all C++
> symbols and only export C ABI, since AFAIR that is the only API used
> from FPC/Lazarus. This would make symbols file maintenance really
> easy.

It wasn't so bad once I figured out how to use pkgkde_symbolshelper (and
some manual clean-up). The good thing with this new version is that it
hardly has arch specific symbols left (one, if my memory serves).

Paul

¹ Still waiting for approval, otherwise I would have shared the direct
link to the message: http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/pipermail/qt/

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