On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 08:34:21AM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> Source: makehuman
> Version: 1.1.1-1
> Severity: normal
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: qt4-removal
>
> TL;DR: Your package, makehuman, is using pyqt4 which depends on Qt4.
> However, it is planned that Qt4 shall be removed from Debian in the
> future. Please check upstream status for Qt5 migration and package
> the new (py)Qt5-based version when available.
>
> * Python3 + Qt5 development git repository:
>
> https://github.com/makehumancommunity/makehuman
>
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>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
>
> For any questions and issues, do not hesitate to contact the Debian
> Qt/KDE
> team at [email protected]
>
> The removal is being tracked in <https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal>
Hi,
there hasn't been any followup on this bug since over a year and we're now
moving
forward with the Qt4 removal, are there immediate plans to port makehuman to
Qt5 or
should we remove it from the archive?
Cheers,
Moritz
