Bug#875134: [qemuctl] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

2019-08-24 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 01:02:58PM +0300, Antti Järvinen wrote:
> Moritz Mühlenhoff writes:
>  > Upstream seems dead, there's no release after 2011 or did you get a reply?
>  > 
>  > Let's remove it from the archive then.
> 
> I've been trying to contact upstream couple of times, no reply and
> porting app to qt5 would require serious refactoring that I can't
> do. -> lets remove.

Thanks, I've just filed a removal bug.

Cheers,
Moritz



Bug#875134: [qemuctl] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

2019-08-24 Thread Antti Järvinen
Moritz Mühlenhoff writes:
 > Upstream seems dead, there's no release after 2011 or did you get a reply?
 > 
 > Let's remove it from the archive then.

I've been trying to contact upstream couple of times, no reply and
porting app to qt5 would require serious refactoring that I can't
do. -> lets remove.

--
Antti



Bug#875134: [qemuctl] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

2019-08-23 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 01:24:39PM +0300, Antti Järvinen wrote:
> Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer writes:
>  > 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.
> 
> Upstream has been contacted with help request ; qemuctl relies on
> application embedding feature and its semantics are fairly different in qt5
> and I could not craft working set of patches myself.

Upstream seems dead, there's no release after 2011 or did you get a reply?

Let's remove it from the archive then.

Cheers,
Moritz