On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 08:25:55PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:06:23PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
> wrote:
> > Source: qliss3d
> > Version: 1.4-2
> > 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
>
> Hi Peter,
> qliss3d is dead upstream, the last release is from 2011. Are you planning to
> port it to
> Qt5 yourself or shall we remove it from the archive?
I filed a removal bug.
Cheers,
Moritz
