Bug#935343: eficas: Qt4 removal from Bullseye

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Tue Sep 17 22:25:56 BST 2019


On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:00:10PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> Source: eficas
> Version: 6.4.0-1-2
> Severity: important
> User: debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qt4-removal
> 
> Hi!
> 
> As you might know, we the Qt/KDE team are going to remove Qt 4 in Bullseye
> cycle, as announced in [1].
> 
> 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.
> 
> Your package still uses Qt 4, via the Python bindings (PyQt4).
> 
> Therefore, please take the time and:
> 
> - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a Qt 5 /
>   PyQt5 port of your application;
> - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there are
>   suitable alternatives for your users;
> - if there is a Qt 5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it;
> - if both the Qt 4 and the Qt 5 versions already coexist in the Debian
>   archives, consider removing the Qt 4 version.

Per https://www.code-aster.org/forum2/viewtopic.php?id=22738 is obsolete
and won't get ported.

Is this accurate? Does anyone of the maintainers intend to port it themselves?
Otherwise let's remove it as we're moving forward with the Qt4 removal now.

Cheers,
        Moritz 



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