Michael Catanzaro wrote:
There is one release so far this year, qtwebkit-5.212.0-alpha4,
based
on WebKitGTK 2.12. Security support for 2.12 ended in September 2016.
So that is the status of your "less outdated" version.
The last Qt 4 WebKit was branched from WebKit master in early August 2012
and the last release was 2.3.4 in October 2014, so 5.212 is 2 to 4 years
less outdated. Hence, please understand that we are trying to get rid of the
older (Qt 4) version first. We cannot do everything at once.
And I still think that for Qt 5 WebKit, we need to consider shipping a
snapshot of the current development branch, based on WebKitGTK 2.27.1,
instead of dropping the package entirely. If the snapshot works at all (even
with bugs), it is better than dropping the package and losing all
applications that depend on it.
Kevin Kofler