On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 11:25:56PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:00:10PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> > Source: eficas
> > Version: 6.4.0-1-2
> > Severity: important
> > User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: qt4-removal
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > As you might know, we the Qt/KDE team are going to remove Qt 4 in Bullseye
> > cycle, as announced in [1].
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Your package still uses Qt 4, via the Python bindings (PyQt4).
> >
> > Therefore, please take the time and:
> >
> > - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a Qt 5 /
> > PyQt5 port of your application;
> > - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there
> > are
> > suitable alternatives for your users;
> > - if there is a Qt 5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it;
> > - if both the Qt 4 and the Qt 5 versions already coexist in the Debian
> > archives, consider removing the Qt 4 version.
>
> Per https://www.code-aster.org/forum2/viewtopic.php?id=22738 is obsolete
> and won't get ported.
>
> Is this accurate? Does anyone of the maintainers intend to port it themselves?
> Otherwise let's remove it as we're moving forward with the Qt4 removal now.
I've now filed a removal bug.
Cheers,
Moritz
