On 10-05-15 14:44, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 05/10/2015 02:16 PM, Anita Graser wrote: >> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: >>> Seems a rather serious issue. Shouldn't we reconsider our roadmap >>> accordingly? >>> >> >> I don't seem to be able to find any dates mentioned in the linked >> resources. When (date) will Debian remove Qt4? > > The Debian Qt maintainers didn't give definitive dates in their > announcement [1], but they mention that Qt upstream is about to release > the last Qt4 point release (4.8.7), Qt upstream also recommends keeping > Qt4 until 2017 which translates to the end of the jessie stable release. > > The next two years must be used to move away from Qt4 to Qt5. During > that time Qt4 components will be removed when they cannot be supported > anymore. The Qt4 Webkit component will be the first to go. Regarding its > removal the Qt maintainers said: > > " > Of course we still have a lot of KDE stuff using Qt4's webkit, so it > won't disappear "soon", but it will at some point. > " > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg00001.html
The severity of the "Qt4's WebKit removal" bugreport in Debian has been raised to serious (Release Critical), because a "new python-qt4 upload with removed QtWebKit module will happen shortly". QGIS will no longer build on Debian sid after this upload as long as it requires Qt4's WebKit. 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] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
