Hi Dmitry, thanks for the note. Upstream is testing Qt5-port and is planning to release it shortly. So then we will be able to fix this issue.
Best regards Anton 2016-03-05 13:25 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Shachnev <mity...@debian.org>: > Source: gazebo > Version: 7.0.0+dfsg-1 > User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: qt4webkit-removal > > Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4's > WebKit > as announced in [announce]. > > [announce] < > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg00001.html> > > Basically we are about to get the last Qt4 point release and upstream is > migrating from WebKit to Blink in the Qt5 series, so we won't have much > upstreams > support for maintaining Qt4's WebKit (Qt5's WebKit is expected to stay > supported > until Qt6). > > In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending > on > the Qt4's WebKit library have to either get ported to Qt5 or eventually get > removed from the Debian repositories. > > Therefore, please take the time and: > - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a Qt5 > port of your application > - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there > are > suitable alternatives for your users > - if there is a Qt5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it > - if both the Qt4 and the Qt5 versions already coexist in the Debian > archives, consider removing the Qt4 version > > = Porting = > > Some of us where involved in various Qt4 to Qt5 migrations [migration] and > we > know for sure that porting stuff from Qt4 to Qt5 is much much easier and > less > painful than it was from Qt3 to Qt4. > > We also understand that there is still a lot of software still using Qt4. > In > order to ease the transition time we have provided Wheezy backports for > Qt5. > > Don't forget to take a look at the C++ API changes page [apichanges] > whenever > you start porting your application. > > [migration] http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/packagingqtbasedstuff.html > [apichanges] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/sourcebreaks.html > > If you have any questions, please reply to this mail and CC me. > > On behalf of the Qt4 maintainers, > > -- > Dmitry Shachnev > -- > debian-science-maintainers mailing list > debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers >
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