Status of Qwt Package

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Julien!

On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 03:34:54PM +0200, Julien Cabieces wrote:
> 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.

I am CCing Gudjon I. Gudjonsson, and also A. Maitland Bottoms, who prepared
the last upload.

I guess the plan is to upload the current version to unstable after the
freeze, but maybe they will tell you more.

By the way, I have just merged the outstanding merge requests, so the version
in git is now the same as in experimental.

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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