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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:18:15PM +0200, W. Martin Borgert 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

pyside2 is now in unstable:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyside2

cu
Adrian

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