Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 06:22:17PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> Hi Guix, >> >> this patch adds a tool to display waveforms from my digital storage >> oscilloscope. The package definition is a bit ugly because upstream >> doesn’t really have a good build system. > > Does it really require qt-4? We removed python2-qt-4 in 3297deedd.
Oh, that’s where it’s gone. Yes, it actually requires qt-4. > AFAICT qt-4 is abandoned by the Qt project and does not receive security > updates. > > https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_project_security_policy > > I didn't test the build yet, because Hydra doesn't have a qt-4 > substitute available. How do other distributions handle this? Do they backport fixes to Qt 4? ~~ Ricardo
