[Rebuild] qt5-webkit

[D3vil0p3r]

Packages:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qt5-webkit

Latest chaotic version

latest

Reason for rebuild

After the update of icu package to 75, qt5-webkit seems to break by the following error:

resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libicuuc.so=74-64", a dependency of "qt5-webkit"
warning: cannot resolve "libicui18n.so=74-64", a dependency of "qt5-webkit"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      qt5-webkit

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[D3vil0p3r]

Probably this package will be dropped soon according to #3157 but be aware about other Chaotic packages that depend on icu libraries.

[Technetium1]

Build is currently failing: qt5-webkit.log
Others report the same failure in clean chroot: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qt5-webkit#comment-973711

[dreirund]

Build is currently failing: qt5-webkit.log

This looks for me that it can be worked around by adding -Wno-error=template-id-cdtor and other -Wno-error=-flags to CFLAGS/ CXXFLAGS.

Maybe also just using -w (to switch off all warnings) might be a "catch them all" solution.

[thotypous]

Latest ICU seems to require -std=c++17 but changing from C++11 to C++17 breaks some of the existing qt5-webkit code

[xiota]

Dropping qt5-webkit because it looks too complicated to fix. It was deprecated years ago. The project keeping it alive quit ~2020.

[D3vil0p3r]

Thank you @xiota in qt6 what is the package that should replace that one?

[xiota]

There's no replacement. Upstream development on qtwebkit was deprecated years ago. They switched to qtwebengine.

Programs that were never updated from qtwebkit have been on life support. They're basically abandoned. Long past time to unplug. Only ~4-5 packages used it, and I've already dropped them from the repo.

Looks like people are still trying to fix it, so the AUR package may eventually work again. But I'd rather not bring it back here because I'm not interested in dealing with it when it breaks again.