I agree, Rik -- it could be a problem. On the other hand, neon manages to package Qt -- is there any discussion about using that packaging in Debian? It seems crazy to package something so massive *twice*.
Valorie On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 6:31 AM Rik Mills <rikmi...@kubuntu.org> wrote: > Could pose us a problem. > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Stepping down as Qt 6 maintainers > Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:05:55 -0300 > From: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezme...@gmail.com> > To: Debian KDE ML <debian-...@lists.debian.org>, > pkg-kde-t...@alioth-lists.debian.net > > After quite some time maintaining Qt in Debian both Dmitry Shachnev > and I decided to not maintain Qt 6 when it's published (expected in > December 2020, see https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_6.0_Release). We will do our > best to keep the Qt 5 codebase up and running. > > We **love** Qt, but it's a huge codebase and requires time and build > power, both things that we are currently lacking, so we decided it's > time for us to step down and pass the torch. And a new major version > seems the right point to do that. > > We will be happy to review and/or sponsor other people's work or even > occasionally do uploads, but we can't promise to do it regularly. > > Some things we think potential Qt 6 maintainers should be familiar > with are, of course, C++ packaging (specially symbols files) and > CMake, as Qt 6 will be built with it. > > We also encourage prospective maintainers to remove the source's > -everywhere-src suffixes and just keep the base names as source > package names: qtbase6, qtdeclarative6, etc. > > It has been an interesting ride all these years, we really hope you > enjoyed using Qt. > > Thanks for everything, > > Dmitry and Lisandro. > > -- > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ > http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/ > > -- > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk
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