[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#875009: [libbpp-qt] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Julien Yann Dutheil]

Hi,

Just ported bpp-qt and bppphyview to Qt5 upstream. Dependency to Qt4 will
therefore be removed in next release.

Best,

Julien.

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Julien Yann Dutheil <
julien.dutheil at univ-montp2.fr> wrote:

> Hi Andreas, Lisandro,
>
> Will port libbpp-qt and bppphyview to Qt5, this is planned. I cannot
> commit myself to any delay however. As these two packages have no further
> dependencies, they can temporarily be removed without too much hassle.
>
> Best,
>
> Julien.
>
> On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
>
>> control: forwarded -1 Julien Dutheil <julien.dutheil at univ-montp2.fr>
>> control: tags -1 upstream
>>
>> Hi Julien,
>>
>> could you please have a look.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>>       Andreas.
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 10:08:55PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
>> Meyer wrote:
>> > Source: libbpp-qt
>> > Version: 2.3.1-4
>> > 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/debi
>> an-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-b
>> in/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/debi
>> an-med-packaging
>> >
>>
>> --
>> http://fam-tille.de
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Julien Y. Dutheil, Ph-D
> 0 (+49) 6421 178 986 <+49%206421%20178986>
>
> § 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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Julien Y. Dutheil, Ph-D
0 (+49) 6421 178 986 <+49%206421%20178986>

§ 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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