Bug#862452: Update to newer QtWebKit
Package: libqt5webkit5
Version: 5.7.1+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
QtWebKit has recently restarted, due to it being faster,
lighter and more standard compliant than the Blink-derived
QtWebEngine, see e.g.
http://qtwebkit.blogspot.it/2016/08/qtwebkit-im-back.html
for the announcement (and comparisons). A “Technology
Preview” compatible with Qt 5.8 is available
https://github.com/annulen/webkit/releases/tag/qtwebkit-tp5
Would it be possible to package it (as `libqt5webkit-ng5`
for example) when Qt gets upgraded? It might also be possible
to package the previous Tech Preview 3
https://github.com/annulen/webkit/releases/tag/qtwebkit-tp3
for Qt 5.7.
The upgrade would give better HTML5 support to browsers
relying on this engine, such as the Otter browser, as shown
in the Otter issue about MathML support:
https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/issues/1358
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64
(x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages libqt5webkit5 depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.23
ii libc6 2.24-10
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 13.0.6-1+b2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 1.10.4-1
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.10.4-1
ii libicu57 57.1-6
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.1-2
ii libpng16-16 1.6.28-1
ii libqt5core5a [qtbase-abi-5-7-1] 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5gui5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5network5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5opengl5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5printsupport5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5qml5 [qtdeclarative-abi-5-7-0] 5.7.1-2+b2
ii libqt5quick5 5.7.1-2+b2
ii libqt5sql5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5widgets5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-3
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-17
ii libwebp6 0.5.2-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2
ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.29-2.1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
libqt5webkit5 recommends no packages.
libqt5webkit5 suggests no packages.
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