Problems after QT5 update to version 5.15.19
Antonio <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.qt-kde |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Dear Maintainer, I am writing to report a critical set of issues affecting the ghostwriter package, which relies heavily on wkhtmltopdf and its Qt5 dependencies for exporting Markdown (.md) files to PDF. 1. Dependency Removal and Package Availability Following the upgrade of the Qt5 runtime environment to version 5.15.19, several essential packages required by wkhtmltopdf have been removed or are no longer present in the Debian sid repository. This has effectively broken the conversion chain. The following specific packages are currently missing: - libqt5pdf5 - libqt5webkit5 - libqt5webview5 - qt5-image-formats-plugin-pdf - libqt5pdfwidgets5 - libqt5webkit5-dev - qml-module-qtquick-pdf - wkhtmltopdf Impact: Without these packages, the ghostwriter function to export Markdown to PDF via any pandoc-based converter (specifically targeting the ConText format) fails completely. The error observed is: "Export failed. Error producing PDF. tex error > tex error on line 366 in file ./input.tex:" 2. Incomplete PDF Rendering (Formulas) Even in cases where a PDF is successfully produced using the "PDF LaTeX" or "PDF wkhtmltopdf" formats within ghostwriter, the content is visually incomplete. Specifically: Mathematical formulas are not rendered: Equations appear only as plain text characters (e.g., "∑" or inline LaTeX code) rather than rendered mathematical notation. Content integrity is compromised: The visual representation of the document does not match the source Markdown. This suggests a deeper regression in how the renderer handles metadata parsing after the Qt5 migration. Given that the original packages are no longer available in Debian sid and the current environment (Qt 5.15.19) is incompatible with the legacy wkhtmltopdf build, we need an update or a re-uploading of a patched version of these packages. Is it possible to restore missing Qt5 dependencies (libqt5webkit, etc.)? Thanks, Antonio