Status of qwt-qt6 package needed for QGIS with Qt6

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 4/9/25 6:19 PM, Julien Cabieces wrote:
> I was aware about this comment (though I actually didn't read the part
> about salvaging which was instructive, my bad) but I was wondering:
> - If the recent activity means that someone somehow has taking over the
> package maintenance and a new package is about to arrive in unstable ?

The recent upload of qwt (6.3.0-1) is a positive development, but it doesn't mean that it will be moved to unstable anytime soon.

The SONAME bump requires coordinating a transition with the release team, and they won't accept any until after the trixie release.

"
   * no new transitions
"
https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#transition

> - Is there anything to be fixed that prevent the package to move to
> testing ? I see 3 comments with "high" status, is it blocking?

The new upstream release is in experimental now:

"
  New upstream version available: 6.3.0-rc1 (already in experimental, but not in unstable) (currently in unstable: 6.1.4-2)
"
https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?gudjon%40gudjon.org#todo


A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms at debian.org> needs to be added to the members of the Salsa repo to be able to push his changes, one of the owners should do that.

https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/extras/qwt/-/project_members?sort=access_level_desc

Email the people involved and/or use the team mailinglist:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/


The lintian issues are for the version in unstable, the version in experimental may have addressed (some of) those issues or not.

Why don't you build the package revision from experimental in an unstable chroot with the lintian hook enabled to find out, and then follow up by sending patches?

https://debian-gis-team.pages.debian.net/policy/packaging.html#git-pbuilder
https://debian-gis-team.pages.debian.net/policy/packaging.html#git-pbuilder-hooks

> - Is it possible to propose a NMU (Non-Maintener Uploads) if there is any
> something to be fixed

NMUs at this time are highly inappropriate. Send patches to the new maintainer instead, ideally join the QT/KDE team and help co-maintain the packaging on Salsa.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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