[Python-modules-team] Bug#879958: python3-pyqt5.qtwebengine: package not available for Raspberry Pi

[Dmitry Shachnev]

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Hi, and sorry for the delay!

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 06:41:31PM +0200, activityworkshop wrote:
> Package: python3-pyqt5.qtwebengine
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> According to packages.debian.org, this package is only built for amd64 and
> i386 architectures.
> To use it on the Raspberry Pi, one would need it to be built also for ARM.
> The Qt5 packages on which this one depends, such as libqt5qui5,
> libqt5webenginecore5, libqt5webenginewidgets5 etc, already appear to be
> built.
> Is this just an oversight, that the python bindings are missing?
>
> As an aside, Raspbian already includes architecture-neutral packages which
> depend on this python3-pyqt5.qtwebengine package, and these fail to install.

In fact I think this bug report should go to Raspbian, not to Debian.

From the Raspbian build logs [1], it looks like qtwebengine is available
there only in buster, not in stretch (even though the version from Debian
stretch builds fine on armhf).

Also for some reason even when I added qtwebengine/armhf support to pyqt5 in
5.7+dfsg-6, the Raspbian developers reverted that change in 5.7+dfsg-6+rpi1
upload (and it is still reverted in 5.9+dfsg-2+rpi1 [2]):

  * Disable webengine for armhf, we do not currently have (and may never have)
    it in Raspbian.

 -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash at raspbian.org>  Sat, 09 Sep 2017 01:01:09 +0000

I do not know the reasoning for that change, so adding Peter to CC in hope
he can explain it.

I can still do an upload for Debian stretch, but only if you confirm that it
will be useful for you. See #880080 for my discussion with the Release Team.

[1]: https://buildd.raspbian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=qtwebengine-opensource-src
[2]: http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/p/pyqt5/pyqt5_5.9+dfsg-2+rpi1.debian.tar.xz

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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