[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#874961: Bug#874961: kmymoney: not ready for Qt5

[Pino Toscano]

In data domenica 9 settembre 2018 15:11:52 CEST, Micha Lenk ha scritto:
> This is a short heads up that I intend to remove support for Qt4 from
> libgwenhywfar on September 13th 2018. This will be done by dropping the
> binary packages libgwengui-qt4-0 and libgwengui-qt4-dev from the
> archive. As a consequence this will cause kmymoney to fail to build from
> source in unstable due to the build dependency libgwengui-qt4-dev
> becoming unavailable.

Well, thanks for the uncooperative pressure.  This is not helpful,
given the current state of kmymoney (see below).

> A fixed version of kmymoney that doesn't fail to build is already
> available in experimental. So, please consider uploading that version to
> unstable to fix this issue.

kmymoney 5.0.0 was the first version ported to Qt5/KF5, and was released
after more than 2 years of upstream work, which included the actual
Qt4->Qt5 and kdelibs4->KF5 switch. From my inspection of the release,
there were bugs and regressions, and even the bugfix release 5.0.1 does
not fix all of them.
Sadly, the status of the development upstream is:
- lots of refactoring commits, much less about fixing actual issues
- stable branches sometimes get fixes, but then upstream almost does
  not get to stabilize them into new bugfix releases (e.g. one year
  between 4.8.0 and 4.8.1)

Upstream should release a 5.0.2 at the end of this month. My plan is to
upload that to experimental, and see what's the feedback from users
(not only Debian ones).

Considering that kmymoney is not a game nor a text editor, but an
application that deals with personal money (and performs also online
financial transactions), I was not confortable in uploading a new 5.0.0
(or even 5.0.1) to unstable "just because". Of course YMMV on this.

Bottom line: if you make the rest of the work in unstable, even for
the kdelibs4 version, harder for us (or me, at least), that would be
very uncooperative, and really uncalled for.

And yes, I already know that kmymoney will be autoremoved from testing
on 13th: this is thanks to another uncooperative DD, who likes to poke
his nose into packages who he has no idea about.

Thanks,
-- 
Pino Toscano
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