X-Debbugs-CC: marco.nel...@credativ.de michael.ba...@credativ.de Hi Marco, Michael,
I noticed that you are listed as the maintainer and uploader for Debian package kprinter4 [1] and Marco is also the upstream author for kprinter4. As you might already know, we intend to remove Qt4 and its reverse dependencies from Debian. It seems that kprinter4 has stopped development since 2014 and there's no sign of porting to Qt5. I'm wondering if you will pick up this software and port it to Qt5 or if there's already a Qt5 counterpart around. If none of those will happen, kprinter4 will have to be removed from Debian eventually together with Qt4. Please feel free to share your idea about the future of kprinter4 in Debian. I will submit a Removal bug to have the package removed 31 days later if there's no reply. -- Regards, Boyuan Yang [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kprinter4 On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 21:32:22 +0200 Lisandro =?iso-8859-1?Q? Dami=E1n_Nicanor_P=E9rez?= Meyer <lisan...@debian.org> wrote: > Source: kprinter4 > Version: 12-1 > Severity: wishlist > User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: qt4-removal > > > Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4 > as [announced] in: > > [announced] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/ msg00006.html> > > Currently Qt4 has been dead upstream and we are starting to have problems > maintaining it, like for example in the [OpenSSL 1.1 support] case. > > [OpenSSL 1.1 support] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi? bug=828522> > > 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. > > Therefore, please take the time and: > - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a Qt5 > port of your application > - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there are > suitable alternatives for your users > - if there is a Qt5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it > - if both the Qt4 and the Qt5 versions already coexist in the Debian > archives, consider removing the Qt4 version > > = Porting = > > Some of us where involved in various Qt4 to Qt5 migrations [migration] and we > know for sure that porting stuff from Qt4 to Qt5 is much much easier and less > painful than it was from Qt3 to Qt4. > > We also understand that there is still a lot of software still using Qt4. > > Don't forget to take a look at the C++ API changes page [apichanges] whenever > you start porting your application. > > [migration] http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/packagingqtbasedstuff.html > [apichanges] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/sourcebreaks.html > > For any questions and issues, do not hesitate to contact the Debian Qt/KDE > team at debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org > > The removal is being tracked in <https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal> > > Lisandro, > on behalf of the Qt4 maintainers > > >
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