[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#874835: [bppphyview] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Julien Yann Dutheil]

Dear Andreas,

The software was ported to Qt5 upstream, but still need to make a new
package version. Will try do that asap.

Best,

Julien.

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Julien,
>
> could you please have a look?
>
> Kind regards
>
>      Andreas.
>
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 08:58:21PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
> Meyer wrote:
> > Source: bppphyview
> > Version: 0.5.1-1
> > 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Debian-med-packaging mailing list
> > Debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/
> debian-med-packaging
> >
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de
>



-- 
Julien Y. Dutheil, Ph-D
0 (+49) 6421 178 986

§ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Systems Evolution
Department of Evolutionary Genetics
Plön -- GERMANY

§ Institute of Evolutionary Sciences - Montpellier
University of Montpellier 2 -- FRANCE
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