[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#874851: [clustalx] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Andreas Tille]

control: forwarded -1 clustalw at ucd.ie
control: tags -1 upstream

Hi,

as you can read below clustalx will be removed from the next Debian
release if it will not be upgraded from Qt4 to Qt5.  It would be a real
shame since it is one of the most frequently used packages in the scope
of bioinformatics.  It would be really great if you could do the upgrade
since its a reasonable assumption that it will be the same in other
linux distributions and users will have trouble to use your fine piece
of software.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 09:03:14PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> Source: clustalx
> Version: 2.1+lgpl-5
> 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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