Updating QtWebKit to 5.2

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Fri May 30 12:08:43 UTC 2014


On Friday, May 30, 2014 10:29:10 Dmitry Shachnev 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.

There comes a point where you can't be blocked by other's non-responsiveness.  
Let's do it Monday unless someone else comes up with a better plan.

Scott K



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