[Pkg-electronics-devel] qucs experimental package

[Felix Salfelder]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 07:35:43PM +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> Hello Felix,
> 
> Am 13.06.18 um 21:19 schrieb Felix Salfelder:
> > Dear team.
> > 
> > I have prepared an experimental qucs package [1] in response to users
> > feedback & grief. Qucs ("quite universal circuit simulator") has
> > disappeared from debian around 2009 at version 0.0.15.
> > 
> > Theres some work going on, also on a release, but the timeline is more
> > than unclear, so i went for a snapshot based on the development branch.
> 
> before digging into maybe some packaging quality tune up ...
> 
> qucs is depending on qt4-dev as I've read on the FAQ [1], there are also
> some other related Qt4 depending in the configure.ac file.
> 
> It's likely that Buster will drop all Qt4 files and related packages
> [2]. So if qucs isn't fitting to get build with Qt5 bindings it's a bit
> useless to put energy into a package that should not go into testing
> because of the Qt4 requirements.
> But I don't know enough of the internals of that software. So please
> take a critical look at qucs if the effort is worth in the end.
> 
> [1] http://qucs.sourceforge.net/faq.html
> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal

Thanks Carsten.

fair point. i know there is work in progress on the qt dependency. i
remember, the main problem was, that qt4 is still being used in qt3
compatibility mode...

Does anybody of the Qucs developers know in what shape the qt5 port is?

cheers
felix