Hi, upstream is aware of this issue and tries to resolve it. But he has got limited time.
Am 06.05.2015 um 18:32 schrieb Ana Guerrero Lopez: > Source: webissues > Version: 1.1.3-2 > Severity: wishlist > User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: qt4webkit-removal > > Dear Patrick Matthäi <pmatth...@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 Blink 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-...@lists.debian.org > > Ana, > on behalf of the Qt4 maintainers > -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer Blog: http://www.linux-dev.org/ E-Mail: pmatth...@debian.org patr...@linux-dev.org */
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