Bug#875225: [virtualjaguar] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

2017-09-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 

On 09/12/2017 04:31 PM, Teemu Hukkanen wrote:

Upstream is just about to make a 2.1.3 release, you might want to take
that.


Even better. Will do :).

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Bug#875225: [virtualjaguar] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

2017-09-12 Thread Teemu Hukkanen 
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz  writes:

> On 09/11/2017 10:36 PM, Teemu Hukkanen wrote:
>> Packaging a more recent git snapshot looks like the best option at the
>> moment.
>
> I will take care of that the next days.

Upstream is just about to make a 2.1.3 release, you might want to take
that.

Bug#875225: [virtualjaguar] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

2017-09-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
On 09/11/2017 10:36 PM, Teemu Hukkanen wrote:
> Packaging a more recent git snapshot looks like the best option at the
> moment.

I will take care of that the next days.

Adrian

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Bug#875225: [virtualjaguar] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

2017-09-11 Thread Teemu Hukkanen 
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer  writes:

> Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4

> Therefore, please take the time and:
> - if there is a Qt5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it

The Qt5 port was done a few years ago now, mostly by me, and is in
upstream git. There hasn't been a point release after that, and upstream
is currently in the middle of some disruptive changes for cdrom support,
which means that upstream isn't keen on doing a point release right now.

Packaging a more recent git snapshot looks like the best option at the
moment.

Bug#875225: [virtualjaguar] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

2017-09-09 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer 
Source: virtualjaguar
Version: 2.1.2-3
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