[Python-modules-team] Removing python-poppler-qt4 from Debian

Anthony Fok foka at debian.org
Tue Oct 3 04:47:50 UTC 2017


Hi Pino,

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Pino Toscano <pino at debian.org> wrote:
> the Debian Qt/KDE team is trying to reduce the Qt4 usage in the archive,
> with the goal of removing Qt4 in Buster [1].  On top of that, Poppler
> upstream is going to drop the poppler-qt4 binding at the end of this
> year [2].
>
> Since the only user of python-poppler-qt4 was frescobaldi, which
> migrated already to Qt5 (including poppler-qt5), what do you think
> about removing python-poppler-qt4?  This would also avoid to be used
> again in the meanwhile.
>
> I can file a RM bug, if you agree.

Thanks for bringing this up this topic.
I agree it is about time to have python-poppler-qt4 removed.

> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/msg00006.html
> [2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2017-July/012337.html

Cheers,
Anthony



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