tank you for this analysis regards, Luigi Pirelli
************************************************************************************************** * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli * Elance: https://www.elance.com/s/edit/luigipirelli/ * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli * Mastering QGIS: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-qgis ************************************************************************************************** On 9 May 2015 at 12:38, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/02/2015 10:19 AM, Luigi Pirelli wrote: >> basing of these info, timeline for transition is imposed by debian >> distribution >> >> http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/qt4s-status-and-qt4s-webkit-removal-in.html > > Triggered by this announcement, a recent bugreport about the Qt4WebKit > removal [1], and the discussion on this list, I've investigated > switching the qgis Debian package to Qt5. > > In Debian there are at least two missing dependencies before the qgis > package can be switched to Qt5: python-qscintilla2 from the qscintilla2 > source package, and libqwt-dev from the qwt source package. > > qwt is currently at version 6.0.0, which is not intended for Qt5 > according to upstream, for Qt5 Qwt >= 6.1 should be used. There is a > bugreport requesting an update to Qwt 6.1 from 2013 [2]. Fortunately > Ubuntu already has qwt 6.1.1 [3]. This packaging can be merged back into > Debian, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer said he might take a look at > that. > > qscintilla2 only provides Python 3 bindings for Qt5, there doesn't seem > to be a Qt5 equivalent for python-qscintilla2. So we may need to switch > QGIS to Python 3 too. > > How feasible is switching to Python 3? > > The Python maintainers in Debian strive to move away from Python 2 in > the next two development cycles (for stretch & buster) as announced [4] > earlier. The qgis package will need to switch in that time frame too. > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/784514 > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/733153 > [3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qwt > [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00005.html > > Kind Regards, > > Bas > > -- > GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 > Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
