Bug#874949: [kdiff3] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Eike]

Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2018, 19:58:07 CEST schrieb Michael Weghorn:
> According to [1] (s.a. the links given there), kdiff3 is now a project
> under the KDE umbrella. I haven't tested the version there yet, though,
> and can't say anything about how well it works.

Thanks for pointing out!
The linked version does work, including context menu in dolphin.
It has lost localization and the QT version, though (and the man page,
not sure if that's really important nowadays).
I'm getting in contact with the developer.

Ciao,
Eike


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Bug#874949: [kdiff3] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Michael Weghorn]

On 2018-04-11 19:47, Eike wrote:
> For KDiff3 QT, it would not be hard. For the KDE version, there's no upstream
> KDE 5 version and the upstream author doesn't have time to implement it. 
> There are people trying to create a KDE5 version, though. I'd prefer to 
> package that when/if it works. The alternative would be to deprecate the
> KDE version and just have kdiff3-qt.
> 

According to [1] (s.a. the links given there), kdiff3 is now a project
under the KDE umbrella. I haven't tested the version there yet, though,
and can't say anything about how well it works.


1:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=KDiff3-Restored-And-Joins-KDE

Bug#874949: [kdiff3] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Eike]

Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2018, 10:07:28 CEST schrieb Wade Chandler:
> The kdiff3 readme states "Supported Qt-versions: 4.8, 5.2 or higher", so
> perhaps only the packaging needs updated?

For KDiff3 QT, it would not be hard. For the KDE version, there's no upstream
KDE 5 version and the upstream author doesn't have time to implement it. 
There are people trying to create a KDE5 version, though. I'd prefer to 
package that when/if it works. The alternative would be to deprecate the
KDE version and just have kdiff3-qt.


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Bug#874949: [kdiff3] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Wade Chandler]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 21:29:55 +0200 Lisandro 
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Dami=E1n_Nicanor_P=E9rez?= Meyer  wrote:
> Source: kdiff3
> Version: 0.9.97-3
> Severity: wishlist
> User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qt4-removal
> 

The kdiff3 readme states "Supported Qt-versions: 4.8, 5.2 or higher", so 
perhaps only the packaging needs updated?

Thanks,

Wade

Bug#874949: [kdiff3] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Source: kdiff3
Version: 0.9.97-3
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