On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 9:32 PM, David Woodfall <d...@dawoodfall.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 2 June 2018 05:26, > Dave Woodfall <d...@dawoodfall.net> put forth the proposition: > > On Saturday 2 June 2018 11:16, > > Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <will...@slackbuilds.org> put forth the > proposition: > > > > I asked about this a couple of weeks ago, but eg qutebrowser is > > > > designed for features in the latest qtwebengine and I would like to > > > > supply a qt5 version that is up-to-date, or at least qt 5.10.1 > > > > anyway. > > > > > > > > I've been running 5.10.1 since around the time it was released with > > > > no issues at all. > > > > > > If i recalled correctly, it has something to do with sip package > shipped > > > with Slackware which doesn't meet the minimum requirement for newer > > > PyQt5 which relies on Qt5-webkit and eventually Qt5 package. > > > Yes, this is the reason qt5 hasn't been updated. PyQt5 can only be updated to 5.7 because the sip package is too old for new PYQt5 packages. > > Ah right. Qutebrowser uses python3-sip/python3-PyQt5 so I haven't hit > > that problem. > > > > How about a separate sip package for python2 that can co-exist with > > the stock version? It may be possible. > > > Possibly, however, I don't have the time to investigate this. If someone wants to own that investigation and create a package, than I'm more than happy to update qt5/PyQt5 packages. --Larry
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