Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 src:qt6-webengine 6.2.4+dfsg-7 Control: retitle -2 qt6-webengine: Python 2 removal in sid/bookworm
On 2020-10-16 21:36:09 +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Hi Moritz! > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 08:04:56PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > > There will be few core packages build-depending on Python 2 (for tests > > or building) which won't be ready for Python 3 for Bullseye (Chromium, > > qtwebkit and IIRC also Pypy), but those only need Python 2 (and a very > > small set of support packages like setuptools/jinja) to build and > > run their tests. > > Small correction: s/qtwebkit/qtwebengine/. > > QtWebEngine bundles Chromium whose upstream is actively working on > Python 3 port [1]. Most probably it won't be ready in time for Bullseye, > but for Bookworm it should be ready (or rather, Qt WebEngine 6 will > use Python 3, and we will remove Qt WebEngine 5). Except that qt6-webengine still uses python2. Hence cloning this bug to also track the issue in qt6-webengine. Cheers > > There are also patches from the FreeBSD maintainer [2], but they are huge > (2200 lines in total) and the author reports that they cause some JS errors, > so I would better not apply them and wait for an official port. > > Qt WebEngine in Debian is not supported from security point of view anyway, > so I think it should be fine to let it use Python 2 in Bullseye. > > [1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1112471 > [2]: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/distributions/2020-September/000860.html > > -- > Dmitry Shachnev -- Sebastian Ramacher
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