[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#875184: [sofa-framework] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:10:03PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> Source: sofa-framework
> Version: 1.0~beta4-12
> 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

The current releases on https://github.com/sofa-framework claim to be Qt5
compatible. Is anyone working on updating the package or should it be removed?

sofa-framework is one of the three remaining reverse dependencies of
libqwt5-qt4-dev at this point.

Cheers,
        Moritz