Bug#875226: [viva] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On 12 September 2017 at 15:34, Martin Quinson
 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> upstream says that the best is to remove viva from Debian altogether.
> That's a bit a pitty, and I'll have to package the replacement
> currently worked on.
>
> Lisandro, do you know how to ask for the package removal? I forgot :(


Sure thing:

reportbug ftp.debian.org

Option 6

But you can first package the replacement and once you have it in the
archive ask for viva's removal (as long as they do not conflict).
qt4-x11' removal will not happen real soon, so you have time to go
ahead :-)

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Bug#875226: [viva] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Martin Quinson]

Hello,

upstream says that the best is to remove viva from Debian altogether.
That's a bit a pitty, and I'll have to package the replacement
currently worked on.

Lisandro, do you know how to ask for the package removal? I forgot :(

Thanks, Mt.

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 10:42:57AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> forwarded 875226 https://github.com/schnorr/viva/issues/13
> thanks
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> thanks for the report. I forwarded this upstream, will see how we
> should proceed.
> 
> Bye, Mt.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:12:17PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer 
> wrote:
> > Source: viva
> > Version: 1.2-1
> > 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
> 
> -- 
> N'attribuez jamais à la malveillance ce qui s'explique très bien par
> l'incompétence.   -- Napoleon Bonaparte
> (Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence)



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Bug#875226: [viva] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Martin Quinson]

forwarded 875226 https://github.com/schnorr/viva/issues/13
thanks

Hello, 

thanks for the report. I forwarded this upstream, will see how we
should proceed.

Bye, Mt.

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:12:17PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer 
wrote:
> Source: viva
> Version: 1.2-1
> 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

-- 
N'attribuez jamais à la malveillance ce qui s'explique très bien par
l'incompétence.   -- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence)


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Bug#875226: [viva] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Source: viva
Version: 1.2-1
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