[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#875208: [tora] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 23:11:23 +0200 Lisandro =?iso-8859-1?Q?
Dami=E1n_Nicanor_P=E9rez?= Meyer <lisandro at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: tora
> Version: 2.1.3-3
> 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.

There is a Qt5 version available upstream (has been for several years).  This 
is one of the last two packages requirement Qscintilla2 for Qt4 and I would 
appreciate it if the maintainer would either update it or indicate they aren't 
going to so it can be removed.

Scott K