#14729: qtwebengine after 5.15.2
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Reporter: ken@… | Owner: blfs-book
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 10.2
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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As expected, future qt5 releases will be limited to commercial customers
at first. When this was announced there were reports that qtwebengine had
to be made available because of its license. Now that 5.15.3 has been
reported (see e.g. phoronix) I googled.
Gentoo are using a git version from 24th February, apparently with extra
workarounds because this is from git
[https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-
qt/qtwebengine/qtwebengine-5.15.2_p20210224.ebuild] and there is also a
post (probably aimed at commercial users wanting to test 5.15.3, but it
says building against 5.12 ('LTS')is also supported) at
[https://m.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/QT-GROUP-OYJ-30049777/news/Qt-
Oyj-nbsp-Building-Qt-WebEngine-Against-Other-Qt-Versions-32397357/].
Since waiting even longer for vulnerability fixes is a bad idea (fixes to
chromium always take until the next qt release to be made available in
qtwebengine) this might be worth exploring, although I expect that the
chromium changes will be in a submodule which usually causes me grief.
At this point I'm flagging this as 'normal' because I have no idea if
there are actually any CVE fixes -we can live in hope there are none,
although that seems unlikely.
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