[Qgis-developer] Broken Python Plugins on QGIS 2.16 Ubuntu 16

[Robin Paulson]

On 2016-09-06 16:59, Tudor Barascu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The QtWebKit Python bindings were removed from Debian Stretch, and I
> guess consequently from ubuntu 16.04 also.

well, here i'm a bit lost. when i do:

$ dpkg -L python-qt4|grep -i webkit

I get this:
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyQt4/QtWebKit.so
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyQt4/QtWebKit.so

also:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd64/python-qt4/filelist

gives the same info. tellingly, QtWebKit.so is not in the debian file 
list.

which tells me that python qt webkit bindings are in stock ubuntu 
xenial. so, why the failure? was qgis compiled without the qt python 
headers? i can understand that happening for the debian builds (those 
necessary headers don't exist), but surely they do on the ubuntu build 
machine?

-- 
robin