Status of Qwt Package

[Julien Cabieces]

Hi everyone,

I would like to know more about current status for Qwt package.

Qwt with Qt6 dependencies is needed by QGIS [0] to build with Qt 6 support
but is yet missing in current Debian distribution. We plan to release
a Qt6 based QGIS LTS version the 2026-06-26, but it would require to
have a Qt6 based Qwt package.

Current version of Qwt package libqwt-qt5-6 is 6.1.4-2 in stable,
testing, and unstable. This package relies on Qt 5 dependencies.

There is a 6.3.0-1 version which has moved into experimental recently
(2025-03-30) and which relies, it seems [1], on Qt 6 dependencies.

Is this package planned to move to unstable, and maybe later to testing
? Is there any blocking issues that remain to be fixed ? How can we help
to move things forward ?

Sorry if this is not the right place for my question.

Regards,
Julien

[0] https://www.qgis.org/
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/extras/qwt/-/blob/debian/master/debian/changelog?ref_type=heads#L30


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