[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#875184: Help needed for medical imaging framework sofa (Was: Bug#875184: [sofa-framework] Future Qt4 removal from Buster)

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi!

On 19/09/12 09:40, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Control: tags -1 help
> 
> On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 11:00:34PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 08:41:40AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 10:43:53PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > I tried to upgrade sofa-framework but had severe issues with new cmake
> > > configuration.  I'll have a look next week.
> > 
> > If you're stuck, feel free to ping #debian-qt-kde.
> 
> I need to admit I'm totally stuck with this package.  Yes, there is a
> new upstream version since a long time and I tried several times to
> update it in Git[1].  However, its basically a new packaging of a large
> package with the need for excluding several code copies of libraries.
> I took over the maintenance from a former uploader which left the team
> but I need to admit my time resources and interest in this package are
> quite sparse.
> 
> To have a chance to keep sofa-framework we need an expert in cmake who
> has some experience how to replace Debian packaged libraries.  I'd
> happily add any volunteer to the Debian Med team to give full commit
> permissions.  If nobody volunteers I do not see a realistic chance to
> keep that package.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
>         Andreas.

Is the embedded stuff all in extlibs/? or is there some other 3rdparty code?