Bug#874877: [freecad] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi Martin!


On 9 September 2017 at 18:18, W. Martin Borgert <debacle at debian.org> wrote:
> On 2017-09-09 21:04, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
>> = 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.
>
> If I understand the various posts in the FreeCAD forums correct,
> they seem to go for PySide2. It would be very helpful, if the
> Debian Qt maintainers could package PySide2! Maybe before Qt4 is
> removed, because otherwise some packages have to be removed just
> to introduce them again. I don't think that packaging PySide2
> outside of the Qt team makes sense, because PySide2 will be the
> "official" Python API of Qt, if I'm not mistaken.
> --
> "Furthermore, I consider that PySide2 must be packaged" -- Qt the Elder

So far no one in the team is interested in PySide2 and our current
manpower does not allows us to even take it as a pet package. I don't
know if asking upstream to use PyQt5 (which is kind of more official)
would be a good idea, else someone needs to step up to maintain
PySide2. Of course [s]he is welcomed in the team to do that!

Kinds regards, Lisandro.

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