Bug#875137: [qjoypad] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Tue Nov 19 21:37:22 GMT 2019


On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:56:13PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:06:18PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > Source: qjoypad
> > Version: 4.1.0-2.1
> > 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
> 
> qjoypad seems dead upstream, but there's a fork at https://github.com/panzi/qjoypad
> which supports Qt5. Does anyone plan to switch the package to the port? Otherwise
> let's remove it as we're moving forward with the Qt4 removal.

I've filed a removal bug now.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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