Bug#862452: Update to newer QtWebKit

[Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru>]

13.05.2017, 23:08, "Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru> 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
>
> Interesting, thanks a lot. That looks like it will make the work much
> easier for the maintainers after the Stretch release, just what they
> were looking for ;-).
>
> I wonder if there's a reason why they went with the same package name
> instead of using a different name (say, libqt5webkit-ng5), and then
> adding Provides/Breaks to allow replacement.

I doubt there will be a reason to keep old package as an installation option

>
> --
> Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Regards,
Konstantin