Hello, upstream says that the best is to remove viva from Debian altogether. That's a bit a pitty, and I'll have to package the replacement currently worked on.
Lisandro, do you know how to ask for the package removal? I forgot :( Thanks, Mt. On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 10:42:57AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > forwarded 875226 https://github.com/schnorr/viva/issues/13 > thanks > > Hello, > > thanks for the report. I forwarded this upstream, will see how we > should proceed. > > Bye, Mt. > > On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:12:17PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > wrote: > > Source: viva > > Version: 1.2-1 > > Severity: wishlist > > User: debian-qt-...@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 > > > > = Porting = > > > > Some of us where involved in various Qt4 to Qt5 migrations [migration] and > > we > > know for sure that porting stuff from Qt4 to Qt5 is much much easier and > > less > > painful than it was from Qt3 to Qt4. > > > > We also understand that there is still a lot of software still using Qt4. > > > > Don't forget to take a look at the C++ API changes page [apichanges] > > whenever > > you start porting your application. > > > > [migration] http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/packagingqtbasedstuff.html > > [apichanges] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/sourcebreaks.html > > > > For any questions and issues, do not hesitate to contact the Debian Qt/KDE > > team at debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org > > > > The removal is being tracked in <https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal> > > > > Lisandro, > > on behalf of the Qt4 maintainers > > -- > N'attribuez jamais à la malveillance ce qui s'explique très bien par > l'incompétence. -- Napoleon Bonaparte > (Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence) -- I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
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