Hi, Just ported bpp-qt and bppphyview to Qt5 upstream. Dependency to Qt4 will therefore be removed in next release.
Best, Julien. On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Julien Yann Dutheil < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andreas, Lisandro, > > Will port libbpp-qt and bppphyview to Qt5, this is planned. I cannot > commit myself to any delay however. As these two packages have no further > dependencies, they can temporarily be removed without too much hassle. > > Best, > > Julien. > > On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > >> control: forwarded -1 Julien Dutheil <[email protected]> >> control: tags -1 upstream >> >> Hi Julien, >> >> could you please have a look. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Andreas. >> >> On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 10:08:55PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez >> Meyer wrote: >> > Source: libbpp-qt >> > Version: 2.3.1-4 >> > Severity: wishlist >> > User: [email protected] >> > 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/debi >> an-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-b >> in/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 [email protected] >> > >> > The removal is being tracked in <https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal> >> > >> > Lisandro, >> > on behalf of the Qt4 maintainers >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Debian-med-packaging mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debi >> an-med-packaging >> > >> >> -- >> http://fam-tille.de >> >> > > > -- > Julien Y. Dutheil, Ph-D > 0 (+49) 6421 178 986 <+49%206421%20178986> > > § Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology > Molecular Systems Evolution > Department of Evolutionary Genetics > Plön -- GERMANY > > § Institute of Evolutionary Sciences - Montpellier > University of Montpellier 2 -- FRANCE > -- Julien Y. Dutheil, Ph-D 0 (+49) 6421 178 986 <+49%206421%20178986> § Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology Molecular Systems Evolution Department of Evolutionary Genetics Plön -- GERMANY § Institute of Evolutionary Sciences - Montpellier University of Montpellier 2 -- FRANCE
