[Freewx-maint] Bug#876789: Bug#876789: python-wxgtk-webview3.0: Depends on libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5 which depends on webkit1

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Tue Sep 26 05:54:34 UTC 2017


On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:37:34PM -0400, Scott Talbert wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Olly Betts wrote:
> >If we revert the change which added this package apart from one hunk in
> >debian/rules then we get a package set which simply doesn't have
> >wx.html2 (rather than a broken one), which seems good so I've uploaded.
> 
> I would think the person who was trying to use wx.html2 might not agree with
> that.

"wx.html2" is actually how wxPython wraps webview:

| I have put the wxPython verison of them in the wx.html2 module
| because the wxWebKit project already produces a wx.webview module for
| wxPython.

So it's inevitable that wx.html2 is not going to work once webview is
disabled in wxWidgets.

Cheers,
    Olly



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