[Python-modules-team] Bug#875190: [shiboken] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

Didier 'OdyX' Raboud odyx at debian.org
Tue Oct 1 07:29:16 BST 2019


Le lundi, 30 septembre 2019, 22.04:05 h CEST Moritz Mühlenhoff a écrit :
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:09:45PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez 
Meyer wrote:
> > Source: shiboken
> > Version: 1.2.2-5
> > 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.
> > 
> > Therefore, please take the time and:
> > - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a Qt5
> > port of your application
> > - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there
> > are suitable alternatives for your users
> > - if there is a Qt5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it
> > - if both the Qt4 and the Qt5 versions already coexist in the Debian
> > archives, consider removing the Qt4 version
> 
> There are no reverse dependencies of src:shiboken in unstable and it has
> been replaced by src:pyside2, let's remove from the archive?

As maintainer: agreed!

Cheers,
    OdyX
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