On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 06:29:45PM -0500, Simon Quigley wrote: > I would like to completely remove Qt 4 from the Ubuntu archive before > the 20.04 release. This includes all of KDE 4 and dependencies.
> The Debian Qt/KDE Team (which I am a part of) is raising the status of > the Qt 4 removal bugs to RC[1], and since the Qt 6 work is starting > upstream in the dev branch in the coming months, now is the time for Qt > 4 to go. > My timeline for this is to change all of the bugs filed to ask people to > port[2] to removal bugs, and go over the list of Qt 4 reverse > dependencies one last time, so the removal can be done at the beginning > of the 20.04 cycle before the archive opens. This would make 19.10 the > last release with Qt 4. > Flavors, please check if Qt 4 is on your ISO, and if it is, make plans > to remove it as soon as you can. Please hop in #ubuntu-qt if you would > like help porting your favorite application. $ apt-cache show libqtcore4 | grep Task Task: lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-audio, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop $ That's still 4 flavors as of today, FTR. > Does anyone object to this plan? > > [1] > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-kde-talk/2019-August/002920.html > [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=qt4-removal -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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