Bug#874823: [ams] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Fri Aug 23 23:00:53 BST 2019


Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
 Source: ams
> Version: 2.1.1-1.1
> 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.

The current git version on Sourceforge defaults to Qt5.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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