[Python-modules-team] Bug#784513: qtwebkit removal from python-qt4

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Sebastiaan,

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 01:07:49AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:31:42 +0300 Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> > I am going to remove qtwebkit support from python-qt4 package in an upload in
> > early 2015 (but not before January 7th, one month from now).
>
> Will these changes be uploaded any time soon?

It was delayed only because of QGIS.

> As long as the WebKit support remains available in the Qt4 packages,
> QGIS upstream is reluctant to deal with its planned removal. The best
> way to get them to address issues is to break their builds unfortunately.
>
> #825091 is the first issue caused by disabling QtWebKit support and I'd
> like upstreams help to resolve it.

WebKit support will definitely be removed from PyQt4 before Stretch freeze.

It will be *probably* removed from Qt4, but that depends on how many rdepends
are remaining.

There is already WebKit support in Qt5/PyQt5 which is not going to be removed
any time soon.

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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