Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 23:29 +0200, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Scidavis hardly relies on Qt4 and its Qt3 compatibility facilities. > It still uses an obsolete version of Qwt and QwtPlot. > > I tried to fork the latest upstream source and begin to migrate > code from Qt4 to Qt5, but the task appears as quite difficult, > since many obsolete Qt3 structures are still in use, and that quite > a lot of Qwt structures are now unsupported with the recent qwt > release (the > only compatible with Qt5). > > As messages asking for an update at upstream level got no reply > during the > last three months, and that no git branch was opened recently to > address > this issue in the upstream repository, I suspect that Scidavis will > never be ported to Qt5 by upstream developers. > > So, I ask for the removal of the package Scidavis from both Testing > and > Unstable distributions, as I do not consider to make this migration. >
Then you need to be requesting removal from unstable, which is the FTP Team's area; reassigning. Regards, Adam
