Bug#875135: qgis: Qt5 version available

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: tags -1 pending

On 1/14/19 12:25 PM, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> On 2019-01-14 11:37, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> qgis is the last package that depends on the Qt4 version of
>> QScintilla2.  It
>> would be nice to be able to drop that for Buster.
>>
>> I notice that qgis 3.4.3 is available as a Qt5 based LTS release.  It
>> would be
>> great to see this in Buster.
> 
> To quote myself in #913065:
> 
> "
>  The qgis package in Debian tracks the LTR releases (in the upstream LTR
>  repo), which doesn't have 3.4 yet.
> 
>  See:
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/roadmap.html#release-schedule
> 
> 
>  The 3.4.5 [release] is after the soft-freeze so we may not be able to
> get it into
>  buster, it will find its way into buster-backports eventually.
> "
> 
> Since QGIS 3.4 switches to Qt5 and Python 3, this change is quite
> invasive, we don't have Python 3 support in GRASS yet, so the
> integration in QGIS will likely be broken.

QGIS 3.4.5 has been uploaded to experimental, but will have to pass the
NEW queue.

I forgot to close this issue in the changelog, so I'll have to do that
manually after it's accepted.

Once it is, I'll talk to the release team via an unblock to see if we
can get it into buster before the release, assuming it's accepted in
time for that.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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