On 2016-05-04 15:08, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
For the upstream QGIS packages this may be an option, for the official
packages in the Debian archive it is not.
Understandable.
I had a look at past Debian releases, extrapolating the release cycle
we
can expect the next release to happen in about a year.
I don't expect a first QGIS release based on Qt5 to happen considerably
earlier. The first LTR based on Qt5 will certainly not happen earlier.
Just to make sure we talk about the same order of delays. (Note: this
timeline has not been officially approved)
Debian will switch to Qt5 with QGIS 2.16, otherwise there will be no
QGIS in the next stable release.
The Qt4 builds currently still work because the Qt maintainers didn't
want to break QGIS before Qt5 support is available, but the Qt4WebKit
removal changes have already been committed and will be included in the
next upload. The upload may happen sooner than we'd like if important
bugfixes need to be uploaded in the near future.
The changes affecting QGIS is the next stable release will arrive
earlier than a year from now. The freeze was planned for 5 November
2016, but has been moved two months to align with the expected 4.10
kernel release. [0]
With the full freeze in February 2016, I expect the release to happen in
Q3 2016, may be even Q4. The Qt4WebKit removal will happen before the
transition freeze on 5 November 2016.
Based on the QGIS release schedule as it stands now, the plans for QGIS
in Debian are discussed in the "QGIS 2.14 & Qt5" thread on the
debian-gis list. [1] That is switching to Qt5 with the 2.16 non-LTR, and
switch back to the 3.x LTRs for unstable/testing & backports.
The choices for the upstream QGIS packages are not really relevant for
Debian, it just makes the packaging changes in Debian less relevant to
forward upstream.
[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/03/msg00000.html
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2016/02/msg00037.html
Kind Regards,
Bas
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