On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:06:18PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Source: qjoypad > Version: 4.1.0-2.1 > Severity: wishlist > User: debian-qt-...@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
qjoypad seems dead upstream, but there's a fork at https://github.com/panzi/qjoypad which supports Qt5. Does anyone plan to switch the package to the port? Otherwise let's remove it as we're moving forward with the Qt4 removal. Cheers, Moritz
