Subject: Re: bug#31711: qutebrowser is broken

From: Gábor Boskovits <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 14:31:34 +0200

2018-06-06 11:48 GMT+02:00 Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>:

> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 02:14:27PM +0200, Rutger Helling wrote:
> > Hi Guix,
> >
> > qutebrowser fails to start with the recent python-pyqt upgrade,
> > possibly due to the removed qtwebkit input.
> >
> > The following error occurs:
> > ---
> >
> > Fatal error: QtWebEngine is required to run qutebrowser but could not
> > be imported! Maybe it's not installed?
> >
> > The error encountered was:
> > No module named 'PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets'
> >
> > Please search for the python3 version of QtWebEngine in your
> > distributions packages, or install it via pip.
> >
> > Please search for the python3 version of QtWebEngine in your
> > distributions packages, or install it via pip.
>
> As part of upgrading Qt to 5.11 the pyqt module for qtwebkit broke so
> qtwebkit was removed from pyqt in an attempt to allow other packages
> that didn't rely on it to continue working. Unfortunately qutebrowser
> got caught up in the middle.
>
> Realistically we'd need to either re-enable qtwebkit as an input for
> pyqt or package qtwebengine and use that in pyqt.
>
>
Actually packaging qtwebengine seems to be the better way. Anyone working
on that?

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