[pkg-xtuple-maintainers] Bug#784509: [postbooks-updater] Qt4's WebKit removal

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wed, 6 May 2015 15:26:40 +0200 Ana Guerrero Lopez <ana at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: postbooks-updater
> Version: 2.2.5-8
> Severity: wishlist
> User: debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qt4webkit-removal
> 
> Dear Debian xTuple Maintainers <pkg-xtuple-
maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>,
> 
> As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4's WebKit
> as announced in [announce].
> 
> [announce] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg00001.html>
> 
> Basically we are about to get the latest Qt4 point release and upstream is
> migrating from WebKit to Bing in the Qt5 series, so we won't have much 
upstream
> support for maintaining Qt4's WebKit.
> 
> In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on
> the Qt4's WebKit library have to either get ported to Qt5 or eventually get
> removed from the Debian repositories.
> 
> Therefore, please take the time and:
> - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a Qt5
> port of your application
> - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there 
are
> suitable alternatives for your users
> - if there is a Qt5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it
> - if both the Qt4 and the Qt5 versions already coexist in the Debian
> archives, consider removing the Qt4 version
> 
> = Porting =
> 
> Some of us where involved in various Qt4 to Qt5 migrations [migration] and 
we
> know for sure that porting stuff from Qt4 to Qt5 is much much easier and 
less
> painful than it was from Qt3 to Qt4.
> 
> We also understand that there is still a lot of software still using Qt4. In
> order to ease the transition time we have provided Wheezy backports for Qt5.
> 
> Don't forget to take a look at the C++ API changes page [apichanges] 
whenever
> you start porting your application.
> 
> [migration] http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/packagingqtstuff.html
> [apichanges] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/sourcebreaks.html
> 
> For any questions and issues, do not hesitate to contact the Debian Qt/KDE
> team at debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org

It looks to me like postbooks-updater is already Qt5 in unstable.  I believe 
that the libqtwebkit-dev build-dep is unused and could simply be removed to 
address this bug.

Scott K