[Debian-lego-team] Bug#875006: [leocad] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

I'll take a look!

On 9 September 2017 at 18:03, Nicolas Guilbert <nicolas at ange.dk> wrote:
> Hi Lisandro,
>
> might you have the possibility to upload the latest leocad package from
>
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/leocad
>
> ?
>
> It closes #875006.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>  Nicolas
>
> On 09/09/2017 10:08 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
>>
>> Source: leocad
>> Version: 17.07-1
>> Severity: wishlist
>> User: debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org
>> Usertags: qt4-removal
>>
>>
>> Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4
>> as [announced] in:
>>
>> [announced]
>> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/msg00006.html>
>>
>> Currently Qt4 has been dead upstream and we are starting to have problems
>> maintaining it, like for example in the [OpenSSL 1.1 support] case.
>>
>> [OpenSSL 1.1 support]
>> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828522>
>>
>> In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending
>> on
>> the Qt4 libraries have to either get ported to Qt5 or eventually get
>> removed from the Debian repositories.
>>
>> Therefore, please take the time and:
>> - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a Qt5
>> port of your application
>> - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there
>> are
>> suitable alternatives for your users
>> - if there is a Qt5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it
>> - if both the Qt4 and the Qt5 versions already coexist in the Debian
>> archives, consider removing the Qt4 version
>>
>> = Porting =
>>
>> Some of us where involved in various Qt4 to Qt5 migrations [migration] and
>> we
>> know for sure that porting stuff from Qt4 to Qt5 is much much easier and
>> less
>> painful than it was from Qt3 to Qt4.
>>
>> We also understand that there is still a lot of software still using Qt4.
>>
>> Don't forget to take a look at the C++ API changes page [apichanges]
>> whenever
>> you start porting your application.
>>
>> [migration] http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/packagingqtbasedstuff.html
>> [apichanges] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/sourcebreaks.html
>>
>> For any questions and issues, do not hesitate to contact the Debian Qt/KDE
>> team at debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org
>>
>> The removal is being tracked in <https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal>
>>
>> Lisandro,
>> on behalf of the Qt4 maintainers
>>
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>



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