Looks like this should be treated as an upstream qwt issue. Thanks for the
input!

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 11:27 PM Erich Eckner <a...@eckner.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Mar 2023, Peyton Murray wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> Hi Peyton,
>
> > Sorry if this is a naive question, but qwt is currently being built with
> > Qt5, which is nearing end-of-life, while Qt6 has been out for a while.
> I'd
> > like for qwt to be built with Qt6, but I'm not sure if this means the
> > package is out-of-date strictly speaking, so I figured I'd ask here
> before
> > marking the package as such. What's the right way to deal with this?
>
> Personally, I would rather open a bug for this. Reasons:
>
> * if there are any obstacles regarding building with Qt6, a bug is more
> appropriate to bundle issues, discussions, efforts, ...
>
> * technically speaking, the package is not outdated (yet)
>
> * If for whatever reason qt5 got removed from the repositories and the
> package still was not rebuilt, it would *definitely* be a bug.
>
> * If for whatever reason, you're wrong, the maintainer can close your bug
> and tell you (and everyone else), what's wrong, in the reason.
>
> >
> > Best,
> > - Peyton
>
> regards,
> Erich
>

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