control: tags 784494 upstream Hi Ana,
upstream is working on it already. Cheers, Bernd On 05/06/2015 03:25 PM, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote: > Source: merkaartor > Version: 0.18.1-3 > Severity: wishlist > User: [email protected] > Usertags: qt4webkit-removal > > Dear Bernd Zeimetz <[email protected]>, > > As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4's WebKit > as announced in [announce]. > > [announce] > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg00001.html> > > Basically we are about to get the latest Qt4 point release and upstream is > migrating from WebKit to Bing in the Qt5 series, so we won't have much > upstream > support for maintaining Qt4's WebKit. > > In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on > the Qt4's WebKit library 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. In > order to ease the transition time we have provided Wheezy backports for Qt5. > > 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/packagingqtstuff.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 [email protected] > > Ana, > on behalf of the Qt4 maintainers > -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
