Bug#875031: [linguider] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:04:38PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 10:10:41PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer 
> wrote:
> > Source: linguider
> > Version: 4.1.1-1
> > 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
> 
> Hi,
> There hasn't been any followup on this bug since two years and we're now 
> moving
> forward with the Qt4 removal, are the immediate plans to port linguider to 
> Qt5 or
> should we remove it from the archive?

I've now filed a removal bug.
 
Cheers,
 Moritz

Bug#875031: [linguider] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 10:10:41PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer 
wrote:
> Source: linguider
> Version: 4.1.1-1
> 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

Hi,
There hasn't been any followup on this bug since two years and we're now moving
forward with the Qt4 removal, are the immediate plans to port linguider to Qt5 
or
should we remove it from the archive?

Cheers,
Moritz

Bug#875031: [linguider] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Source: linguider
Version: 4.1.1-1
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