Bug#874878: [freemat] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 09:04:55PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> Source: freemat
> Version: 4.2+dfsg1-1
> 4.2+dfsg1-5
> 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

There hasn't been any followup on this bug since two years and we're now moving
forward with the Qt4 removal, are the immediate plans to port freemat to Qt5 or
should we remove it from the archive?

Cheers,
        Moritz