Thanks for the updates and the links to the discussions. My understanding is that Debian doesn't wish to distribute Qt WebEngine because it is would be linked in statically and thus not receive any security updates. And changing it to use the library dynamically would be too much work. Is that a fair assessment?
I did look into the Oxide packages. I tried to install several of them, including even the codecs. However, this still doesn't allow me to build my test project (see attachment). So, appears that Oxide is not a drop- in replacement for web engine. Also, I found hardly any documentation on Oxide other than a blog post. I also found https://launchpad.net/oxide but that is very scare on details or documentation. If you have any other pointers, please let us know. Otherwise, our best course of action is to package QT ourselves. Thanks again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to qtbase-opensource-src in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579265 Title: Qt dev package does not include webenginewidgets Status in qtbase-opensource-src package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Attached is a sample project that uses several QT components. To build this, one needs to install the following packages: apt-get install libqt5core5a qtconnectivity5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev qt5-default libqt5webkit5-dev qt3d5-dev g++ Then, run qmake. The expected result should be output of a Makefile, Makefile.debug and Makefile.release. However, I get the following error: unknown modules: webenginewidgets I do not see any package that provides the web engine widgets component and must conclude that the QT package is missing this. Therefore am opening this bug and requesting that QT be packaged to include webengine. Or a separate package be provided with this. This is for 16.04 release which packages Qt 5.5.1. Thanks. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-src/+bug/1579265/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
