Status of qwt-qt6 package needed for QGIS with Qt6

[Julien Cabieces]

Hi,

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation.

I'll try to reach out with mail first and then, if needed, try to help.

Kind regards,
Julien

> 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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Julien Cabieces
Senior Developer at Oslandia
julien.cabieces at oslandia.com