Bug#875250: Bug#875258: [scim] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi Rolf!

On 19/11/10 10:41, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 03:31:29AM +0800, Tz-Huan Huang wrote:
[snip]
>
> Hi Rolf,
> could you have a look/do an upload? Once the qscintilla migration is complete,
> scim will be the last remaining key package blocking the removal of Qt4
> from testing.

qscintilla2 migration has just happened. This bug has never been replied by the
maintainer, so except anyone plans to do an NMU I'm planning to ask for it's
removal from the archive.

Cheers, Lisandro.

Bug#875250: Bug#875258: [scim] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 03:31:29AM +0800, Tz-Huan Huang wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:39 AM Moritz Mühlenhoff  wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:09:36PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
> > Meyer wrote:
> > > Source: scim
> > >
> > > Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4
> > > as [announced] in:
> > >
> > > [announced] <
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/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] <
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?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.
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > Given upstream's comments on https://github.com/scim-im/scim/issues/21,
> > let's
> > move forward by dropping the scim-qt-immodule binary package? It can still
> > be re-added if a Qt5 port appears at a later time.
> >
> 
> Sure. I have made the update and been waiting for maintainer's review.
> 
>   https://github.com/leggewie-DM/scim/pull/1

Hi Rolf,
could you have a look/do an upload? Once the qscintilla migration is complete,
scim will be the last remaining key package blocking the removal of Qt4
from testing.

Cheers,
Moritz

Bug#875250: Bug#875258: [scim] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Tz-Huan Huang]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:39 AM Moritz Mühlenhoff  wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:09:36PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
> Meyer wrote:
> > Source: scim
> >
> > Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4
> > as [announced] in:
> >
> > [announced] <
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/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] <
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?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.
> >
> > 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
>
> Given upstream's comments on https://github.com/scim-im/scim/issues/21,
> let's
> move forward by dropping the scim-qt-immodule binary package? It can still
> be re-added if a Qt5 port appears at a later time.
>

Sure. I have made the update and been waiting for maintainer's review.

  https://github.com/leggewie-DM/scim/pull/1

Thanks,
Tz-Huan

Bug#875258: [scim] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Source: scim
Version: 1.4.18-1
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