Hi Rob
Le 03/12/2020 à 03:56, Rob Landry a écrit :
On Mon, 30 Nov 2020, Florent Peyraud wrote:
Some packages are not available anymore on Ubuntu 20.04.
That troubles me. Since Ubuntu is built on Debian Unstable, that means
that we are probably no more than two Debian releases away from a time
when it will no longer be possible to build Rivendell under Debian.
Debian used to be my platform of choice for Rivendell, but lately I've
been using the CentOS installers. The one recent occasion I had to
build Rivendell on Debian was on a Raspberry Pi 4, as an experiment.
Rivendell 2.x would not compile, and while I did get Rivendell 3.x
installed and running, the process was more complicated and there are
a lot of new dependencies.
Do I understand correctly that just months after Fred completed the
long process of porting Rivendell to Qt4, Ubuntu has dropped Qt4?
This is the case :(
Qt4 has been officially dropped in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS in order to
"encourage" (understand "to force") developers to migrate to Qt6 [1][2].
Some PPA exist to install it anyway, but may conflict with some other
packages. As I wanted to have a stable and maintainable platform with as
few as possible hacks overriding obsolete packages, I sticked to Ubuntu
18.04 which will be supported until 2028 (extended LTS). This should let
us (well.. read "Fred Gleason" ;) ) the time to work on Qt6 migration
before EoL of 18.04.
Nevertheless, there are also other packages missing, like libmp4v2 IIRC,
maybe some more... As I needed a solution to upgrade my former customers
still running 2.10.4 in a country where accentuated characters are so
common, I focused on a stable transitional solution choosing 18.04. But
I look forward migrating to 20.04+ ASAP !
Best regards
Florent
[1]
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-20.04-LTS-No-Qt4
[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2019-August/004800.html
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