Bug#891993: syrthes-gui uses obsolete libs Qt4 and Python2

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 05:25:20PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 03:57:47PM +0200, Gilles Filippini wrote:
> > > syrthes is the only remaining packages blocking the removal of pyqwt5. Are
> > > you planning to port the GUI yourself, should we (temporarily, until fixed)
> > > drop the syrthes-gui package or if that's not an option, should syrthes be
> > > (temporarily) removed altogether?
> > 
> > Syrthes' upstream is quite unresponsive. A version 5 should be on its
> > way but there is no place to download it from and the preview I had more
> > than one year ago brought many dependencies with unclear licensing.
> > 
> > I think the best option for now would be to just drop syrthes-gui.
> 
> Patch attached.

Status update: 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