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

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Sat Aug 24 14:22:43 BST 2019


On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:49:29PM -0400, Scott Kitterman 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.
> 
> It's now the last one, so if I don't hear back soon that someone intends to 
> upgrade this to Qt5, I'll file for the rm.

Adding the primary uploader to CC.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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