Opened 4 years ago
Last modified 4 years ago
#14729 closed enhancement
qtwebengine after 5.15.2 — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Owned by: | blfs-book | |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | 11.0 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description ¶
As expected, future qt5 releases will be limited to commercial customers at first. When this was announced there were reports that qtwebengine had to be made available because of its license. Now that 5.15.3 has been reported (see e.g. phoronix) I googled.
Gentoo are using a git version from 24th February, apparently with extra workarounds because this is from git https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-qt/qtwebengine/qtwebengine-5.15.2_p20210224.ebuild and there is also a post (probably aimed at commercial users wanting to test 5.15.3, but it says building against 5.12 ('LTS')is also supported) at https://m.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/QT-GROUP-OYJ-30049777/news/Qt-Oyj-nbsp-Building-Qt-WebEngine-Against-Other-Qt-Versions-32397357/.
Since waiting even longer for vulnerability fixes is a bad idea (fixes to chromium always take until the next qt release to be made available in qtwebengine) this might be worth exploring, although I expect that the chromium changes will be in a submodule which usually causes me grief.
At this point I'm flagging this as 'normal' because I have no idea if there are actually any CVE fixes -we can live in hope there are none, although that seems unlikely.
