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

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 08:42:14AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:55:03PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 06:41:05PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > > I've created a WIP merge request at
> > > 
> > >   https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/sofa-framework/merge_requests/1
> > > 
> > > I could solve TinyXML (at least in the aspect of finding it, I might need to
> > > adjust something else later on) but came across libgtest-dev... It ships static
> > > libraries!
> 
> @Lisandro: Thanks a lot, merged.
> 
> > > I would have to check how to use them within CMake, but I do wonder if it's not
> > > better to just keep the embedded version. After all it's only used for testing
> > > C++ classes, so build time...
> > 
> > Agreed, that seems preferable here.
> 
> I've created a new tarball +dfsg3 which includes gtest.
> 
> Lisandro, I'm really happy that you are pushing sofa-framework forward.

Any further progress?

Qt4 has now been droppped from testing, qt4 will be removed from unstable by end of
February (along with the remaining rdeps (currently 15)).

Cheers,
        Moritz