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

[Daniel Pocock]

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On 04/06/15 19:29, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> 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.

Ok, the build deps have been updated, they only depend on
libqtwebkit-dev now and not on libqt4-webkit

I'm also happy for people to NMU these packages just as long as you
make the changes through Git and tag when you upload

Thanks for taking the time to provide this feedback about the packages.

Regards,

Daniel

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