On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 09:46:45 AM Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:23:49AM +0800, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > 2018-07-25 5:51 GMT+08:00 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > > > > <perezme...@gmail.com>: > > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 14:04, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > > >> Simple enough: once you've installed the new version, "dpkg-reconfigure > > >> debconf" and select the "Kde" frontend. You can then install/remove > > >> packages that do debconf interaction, using apt or aptitude or a > > >> graphical frontend or whatever, and see if you get reasonable prompts. > > > > > > Works like a charm. I will keep testing it, but I think we can > > > deprecate the Qt4 version right now. > > > > This is really cool, thank you a lot for working on it! The KDE > > frontend will also be much easier to maintain with debconf-kde-helper, > > porting it to Qt 6 when it arrives should be very easy. > > This change may also help with a current effort to improve the way > > debconf is handled when packages are installed via PackageKit (by > > potentially making it possible to get rid of KDE special-casing). > > Great, thanks a lot to you both. I've uploaded debconf 1.5.69 now to > remove the old Qt frontend.
I've filed the rm bugs for qt4-perl and smokeqt. This was the last thing preventing their removal. Scott K
