Qt status for Jessie

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi everyone! I would like to do a brief status of Qt's packaging for Jessie.

First of all, I would like to let you know that I'm finding myself without the 
necessary time to tackle all that's necessary for Jessie. I'm doing my best 
but I don't think I'll make it alone.

Dmitry Schanev (mitya57) has been helping me **a lot** but he is currently 
unavailable. Kudos to him for all the hard work he has been putting on this.

= pkg-kde-tools

We really need to do some bug triaging, specially for a multiarch wishlist 
bug, but IIRC there are some other bugs which could be easily solved and would 
help porters with their work.

= Qt4

The most important thing here is currently webkit. We have RC bug #746907 
which I think could be solved with Andreas Cord-Landwehr (CoLa) patches for 
getting a new version in [0].


[0] <https://github.com/cordlandwehr/qtwebkit-debian/tree/webkit-2.3.2>

After that we really need to redo a round of bug triaging.

= Qt5 (all what I'm writing here is also 

qtbase can use journald support, but it was not enough to jsut add the build 
dependencies. It needs checking (maybe a compiler flag?) 

qtdeclarative is currently building with SSE2 stuff enabled, else the V4 stuff 
will not work. Non the less there is the chance to get all the rest built 
without SSE2 and provide both builds in the same package. This has been 
already discussed both upstream and team-wide and it's doable, but we require 
man power to make it real.
I have some more info and Thiago Maciera's recommendations for doing it, just 
ping me if you plan to stand-up for this one.

For qttools we need to get #749336 solved

And we need to get qtenginio and qtwebsockets packaged and in the archive with 
time. qtwebsocket already has a repo in git.debian.org with some initial 
packaging by Dmitry, I couldn't take a look on it so far. qtenginio needs 
packaging from scratch.

In qtmultimedia we are currently using a hammer-like patch to let it build on 
Hurd: if we do not detect v4l's headers we don't build gstreamer support. I'm 
currently working on detecting v4l and only avoiding to build stuff that 
depends on it. I'll surely make my patches as public work in progress to Qt-
project's gerrit in a few hours. If someone wants to help with this one, just 
ping me and I'll pass the necessary links.

= Backporting

Finally we have people working on backporting Qt4 and Qt5 to wheezy. We really 
want to this to happen if we plan to get rid of Qt4 for Jessie+1, or at least 
try it.

I'm surely forgetting more stuff, but the most important thing is we can do 
with some help.

Thanks, Lisandro.

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