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Bug#862452: Update to newer QtWebKit



Hi Konstantin,

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 01:42:12PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> Note that there is unofficial package already:
>
> http://repo.paretje.be/unstable/#
>
> See packages libqt5webkit5, libqt5webkit5-dev
>
> Git repo of package is at
> https://gitlab.com/paretje/qtwebkit/tree/master/debian
>
> Package is loosely based of webkitgtk's, and contains a few build
> dependencies that are not actually needed:
>
> libharfbuzz-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libfontconfig1-dev (these are used when
> qtbase is built, not directly in qtwebkit)
> libgnutls28-dev, libsoup2.4-dev, libenchant-dev, geoclue-2.0,
> libsecret-1-dev - not used at all
> libxt-dev - probably unused as well
>
> Otherwise, packaging files look good to me

Thanks for the information, it is very helpful!

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 02:03:10PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> Also, note that upcoming release is intended to be a drop-in replacement of
> old QtWebKit to be used with older Qt versions too, as security update.

This is also helpful, but if you mean that we should update the packages
in Stretch too, then probably the answer is that we don’t have enough time
for it...

--
Dmitry Shachnev

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