Updating QtWebKit to 5.2

[Pat McGowan]

We will get this tested with touch and landed as soon as possible.

Pat


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:13 AM, David Barth <david.barth at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Le 30/05/2014 14:20, David Barth a écrit :
>
>  Le 30/05/2014 12:41, Olivier Tilloy a écrit :
>>
>>> (cc’ing David and Alex who may want to comment)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Olivier Tilloy <
>>> olivier.tilloy at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at ubuntu.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would very much like to update qtwebkit-opensource-src to version
>>>>> 5.2.0. It blocks syncs of other packages, like pyqt5,
>>>>> qtsensors-opensource-src and qtscript-opensource-src. It is also a
>>>>> prerequisite for updating Qt itself to version 5.3 (as qttools now
>>>>> depends on qtwebkit).
>>>>>
>>>>> According to Timo in
>>>>>
>>>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~mitya57/kubuntu-packaging/
>>>>> qtwebkit-merge-with-debian/+merge/216539
>>>>> :
>>>>>
>>>>>  This looks it'd be great to have so I'm planning to build this for
>>>>>>
>>>>> testing in addition to qtbase
>>>>>
>>>>>> and qtdeclarative when U opens, but we need to check with webapps
>>>>>>
>>>>> people (= dbarth,
>>>>>
>>>>>> alex-abreu) on how they see this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not clear on what's the schedule for full Oxide moving. In
>>>>>> addition
>>>>>>
>>>>> to touch also desktop
>>>>>
>>>>>> is currently including libqt5webkit5 in default install still (checked
>>>>>>
>>>>> with seeded-in-ubuntu
>>>>>
>>>>>> qtwebkit-opensource-src).
>>>>>>
>>>>> Does anybody know when it will be possible to upload this?
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not want to break Touch stuff, but I am already waiting for more
>>>>> than a month and don't want to wait more.
>>>>>
>>>>>  As far as webbrowser-app is concerned, the transition to oxide is
>>>> complete. The webapp-container still has a dependency on QtWebKit
>>>> though,
>>>> to catter for legacy webapps that use the 13.10 framework, as pointed
>>>> out
>>>> by Timo in the MR.
>>>>
>>>> I’d say all that’s needed is to thoroughly test existing webapps that
>>>> still use QtWebKit. Is there a PPA we can use to test this new version?
>>>>
>>> I don't think we can realistically test all of them properly. This is
>> really the responsibility of the app developers.
>>
>> Rather, it means that our temporary support for webapps using the 13.10
>> framework needs to end.
>>
>> We had already started warning developers about it
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~click-reviewers/click-reviewers-tools/trunk/
>> revision/189 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eclick-reviewers/click-
>> reviewers-tools/trunk/revision/189> last month.
>>
>> Now is the time to announce the end of support for the old runtime.
>>
> I have posted a warning on the app developer list ([ubuntu-phone]), and
> from preliminary testing of apps switched to oxide I don't see any apparent
> issues.
>
> In other words, don't block on webapp support. We will land a fix to
> switch all apps to Oxide, to go along with the qtwebkit upload.
>
>
> David
>
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