[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1757320] [NEW] Remove Qt 4 from the archive

2018-03-20 Thread Simon Quigley
Public bug reported:

Currently Qt 4 has been dead upstream and we are starting to have
problems maintaining it, like for example in the OpenSSL 1.1 support case.

Following in the footsteps of Debian[1], all packages directly or
indirectly depending on qt4-x11 must either get ported to Qt 5 and
uploaded to the development release or get removed (by means of demotion
to -proposed or the whole source package removal) before the 19.04
release. If it is possible to do this by the 18.10 release, please do so.

No new packages entering the Ubuntu archive should depend on qt4-x11 or
any package which directly or indirectly depends on it.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal

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Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1757320] [NEW] Remove Qt 4 from the archive

2018-03-21 Thread Gilles Degottex
ubuntu/fmit has been ported to Qt5 a while ago. Just need to use the last
version from github.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:13 AM, Simon Quigley 
wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Currently Qt 4 has been dead upstream and we are starting to have
> problems maintaining it, like for example in the OpenSSL 1.1 support case.
>
> Following in the footsteps of Debian[1], all packages directly or
> indirectly depending on qt4-x11 must either get ported to Qt 5 and
> uploaded to the development release or get removed (by means of demotion
> to -proposed or the whole source package removal) before the 19.04
> release. If it is possible to do this by the 18.10 release, please do so.
>
> No new packages entering the Ubuntu archive should depend on qt4-x11 or
> any package which directly or indirectly depends on it.
>
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal
>
>  affects ubuntu/acoustid-fingerprinter
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>  affects ubuntu/adwaita-qt
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>  affects ubuntu/akonadi4
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