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

Scott Talbert swt at techie.net
Tue Sep 26 12:24:06 UTC 2017



On September 26, 2017 1:54:34 AM EDT, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
>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.

I am fully aware of that.  I just think it would have been better to leave it until wxWebview was being removed.



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