[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#935351: qbzr: Qt4 removal from Bullseye

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:05:43PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Porting from Qt 4 to 5 is much easier than it was to port from Qt 3 to 4.
> Please see [2] for the general porting instructions, and [3] for some
> Python-specific differences.

Thanks for the heads-up. I've filed a removal request for qbzr, since it is
unmaintained upstream and we will soon transition from bzr to breezy anyway.