Bug#875208: [tora] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 10:12:34PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > > It's now the last one, so if I don't hear back soon that someone
> > > intends to 
> > > upgrade this to Qt5, I'll file for the rm.
> > 
> > Adding the primary uploader to CC.
> 
> I'm not using the tool anymore, nor do I have time to take care of it.
> The only reason why I didn't orphan it, is that somebody inb the group
> might be willing to, but apparently not. So in short, go ahead.

Ack, I've just filed a removal bug.

Cheers,
Moritz

Bug#875208: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#875208: [tora] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday, August 24, 2019 4:12:34 PM EDT Michael Meskes wrote:
> > > It's now the last one, so if I don't hear back soon that someone
> > > intends to
> > > upgrade this to Qt5, I'll file for the rm.
> > 
> > Adding the primary uploader to CC.
> 
> I'm not using the tool anymore, nor do I have time to take care of it.
> The only reason why I didn't orphan it, is that somebody inb the group
> might be willing to, but apparently not. So in short, go ahead.

Thanks.  rm bug filed.

Scott K

Bug#875208: [tora] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Michael Meskes]

> > It's now the last one, so if I don't hear back soon that someone
> > intends to 
> > upgrade this to Qt5, I'll file for the rm.
> 
> Adding the primary uploader to CC.

I'm not using the tool anymore, nor do I have time to take care of it.
The only reason why I didn't orphan it, is that somebody inb the group
might be willing to, but apparently not. So in short, go ahead.

Michael
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Bug#875208: [tora] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:49:29PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > Source: tora
> > > Version: 2.1.3-3
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org
> > > Usertags: qt4-removal
> > > 
> > > Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4
> > > as [announced] in:
> > > 
> > > [announced]  > msg6.html>
> > > 
> > > Currently Qt4 has been dead upstream and we are starting to have problems
> > > maintaining it, like for example in the [OpenSSL 1.1 support] case.
> > > 
> > > [OpenSSL 1.1 support]  > bug=828522>
> > > 
> > > In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending 
> > > on
> > > the Qt4 libraries have to either get ported to Qt5 or eventually get
> > > removed from the Debian repositories.
> > 
> > There is a Qt5 version available upstream (has been for several years). This
> > is one of the last two packages requirement Qscintilla2 for Qt4 and I would 
> > appreciate it if the maintainer would either update it or indicate they 
> > aren't 
> > going to so it can be removed.
> 
> It's now the last one, so if I don't hear back soon that someone intends to 
> upgrade this to Qt5, I'll file for the rm.

Adding the primary uploader to CC.

Cheers,
Moritz

Bug#875208: [tora] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Scott Kitterman]

On Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:15:21 -0400 Scott Kitterman  
wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 23:11:23 +0200 Lisandro =?iso-8859-1?Q?
> Dami=E1n_Nicanor_P=E9rez?= Meyer  wrote:
> > Source: tora
> > Version: 2.1.3-3
> > Severity: wishlist
> > User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: qt4-removal
> > 
> > 
> > Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4
> > as [announced] in:
> > 
> > [announced]  msg6.html>
> > 
> > Currently Qt4 has been dead upstream and we are starting to have problems
> > maintaining it, like for example in the [OpenSSL 1.1 support] case.
> > 
> > [OpenSSL 1.1 support]  bug=828522>
> > 
> > In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending 
on
> > the Qt4 libraries have to either get ported to Qt5 or eventually get
> > removed from the Debian repositories.
> 
> There is a Qt5 version available upstream (has been for several years).  
This 
> is one of the last two packages requirement Qscintilla2 for Qt4 and I would 
> appreciate it if the maintainer would either update it or indicate they 
aren't 
> going to so it can be removed.

It's now the last one, so if I don't hear back soon that someone intends to 
upgrade this to Qt5, I'll file for the rm.

Scott K

Bug#875208: [tora] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 23:11:23 +0200 Lisandro =?iso-8859-1?Q?
Dami=E1n_Nicanor_P=E9rez?= Meyer  wrote:
> Source: tora
> Version: 2.1.3-3
> Severity: wishlist
> User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qt4-removal
> 
> 
> Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4
> as [announced] in:
> 
> [announced] 
> 
> Currently Qt4 has been dead upstream and we are starting to have problems
> maintaining it, like for example in the [OpenSSL 1.1 support] case.
> 
> [OpenSSL 1.1 support] 
> 
> In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on
> the Qt4 libraries have to either get ported to Qt5 or eventually get
> removed from the Debian repositories.

There is a Qt5 version available upstream (has been for several years).  This 
is one of the last two packages requirement Qscintilla2 for Qt4 and I would 
appreciate it if the maintainer would either update it or indicate they aren't 
going to so it can be removed.

Scott K

Bug#875208: [tora] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Source: tora
Version: 2.1.3-3
Severity: wishlist
User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: qt4-removal


Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4
as [announced] in:

[announced] 


Currently Qt4 has been dead upstream and we are starting to have problems
maintaining it, like for example in the [OpenSSL 1.1 support] case.

[OpenSSL 1.1 support] 

In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on
the Qt4 libraries have to either get ported to Qt5 or eventually get
removed from the Debian repositories.

Therefore, please take the time and:
- contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a Qt5
port of your application
- if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there are
suitable alternatives for your users
- if there is a Qt5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it
- if both the Qt4 and the Qt5 versions already coexist in the Debian
archives, consider removing the Qt4 version

= Porting =

Some of us where involved in various Qt4 to Qt5 migrations [migration] and we
know for sure that porting stuff from Qt4 to Qt5 is much much easier and less
painful than it was from Qt3 to Qt4.

We also understand that there is still a lot of software still using Qt4.

Don't forget to take a look at the C++ API changes page [apichanges] whenever
you start porting your application.

[migration] http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/packagingqtbasedstuff.html
[apichanges] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/sourcebreaks.html

For any questions and issues, do not hesitate to contact the Debian Qt/KDE
team at debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org

The removal is being tracked in 

Lisandro,
on behalf of the Qt4 maintainers