[Python-modules-team] Bug#784512: [pyside] Qt4's WebKit removal

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud]

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Dear Debian Qt-KDE & Debian Python Modules Teams,

I'm not using PySide at all, and won't have capacity before the freeze to 
tackle this migration. To make this clear, I have pushed my removals from 
Uploaders' field in both pyside and pyside-tools.

The future's probably https://github.com/PySide/pyside2 , but it's probably 
_very_late_ in the freeze to upload this.

Le mercredi, 6 mai 2015, 15.26:54 h CEST Ana Guerrero Lopez a écrit :
> 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 
> 
> Ana,
> on behalf of the Qt4 maintainers

-- 
Cheers,
    OdyX
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