Updating QtWebKit to 5.2

[Olivier Tilloy]

(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?
>
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