On Saturday, September 09, 2017 11:08:15 PM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Source: qtruby > Version: 4:4.14.3-1 > Severity: wishlist > User: debian-qt-kde@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-kde@lists.debian.org > > The removal is being tracked in <https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal> > > Lisandro, > on behalf of the Qt4 maintainers
No rdepends, so went ahead and requested removal. Scott K