On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:09:29PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
wrote:
> Source: scantailor
> Version: 0.9.12.2-3
> 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
Hi Jason,
per Github issue 121 there's no current activity to port scantailor to
Qt5. Are you planning to switch to the scantailor-advanced fork? Otherwise
let's remove it, we're now moving forward with removal of Qt4 from Debian
(and all non-ported reverse dependencies left)
Cheers,
Moritz
