[pkg-xtuple-maintainers] Bug#787747: Bug#787747: postbooks: FTBFS due to missing build dependency libqt4-webkit

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On Thursday 04 June 2015 19:18:57 Daniel Pocock wrote:
> On 04/06/15 18:43, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > Source: postbooks
> > Version: 4.7.0-2
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: FTBFS due to missing dependency
> > 
> > Hi! Your package *build* depends on libqt4-webkit, which is no longer
> > available in the archive, and so it FTBFS.
> > 
> > Sadly I missed it when preparing the transition to remove this
> > transitional
> > packages because I did not expect people depending on a non-dev package
> > as it is useless. Now Qt4 has been uploaded and this FTBFS will be
> > triggered on the next rebuild :-(
> 
> The xTuple upstream developers are aware of the transition and qt5 will
> be supported with a new upstream release, maybe 4.9.0 or 4.10.0.
> 
> I believe the timeline for this is within 3 - 6 months.
> 
> Can you please leave libqt4-webkit in the archive until upstream finish
> testing and release with qt5 support?

Hi Daniel! You are mixing two things here:

- One is using qt4 webkit. There is another bug filed for that. We do not 
expect to do the removal soon, but we expect to start pushing things harder 
whenever the KDE stack gets updated. I would say at least 3 months, can be 
more.

- Another one is the problem which motivates this bug. You are using
libqt4-webkit as a build dependency, when that package does not provides any 
headers. This is the package that got removed. You are already build depending 
on libqtwebkit-dev, so simply removing libqt4-webkit from the build 
dependencies should do the trick.

I think the same goes for postbooks-updater.

Kinds regards, Lisandro.

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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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