Re: Qt4 removal plan

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 01:29:31PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>> I propose to obsolete and remove Qt4 from pkgsrc.
>> 
>> Most of the existing users of qt4 packages are KDE4, everything else is
>> dead upstream.
>> 
>> Many of the distributions already did it:
>> 
>> https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal
>> 
>> The last version of Qt4 4.8 LTS (4.8.7) was released in 2011 and is
>> unsupported since 2015.
>> 
>> Qt5 is around since 2012.
>> 
>
> I agree (obviously :)).
>
> I can probably import the Qt5 version of Scribus tonight.
>
> owncloudclient has Qt5 support upstream already and needs to be
> updated/switched.
>
> GNU Radio needs to be switched - upstream has Qt5 support already.
>
> The rest is mostly entirely KDE 4 stuff, with fading relevancy.

Given owncloud/gnuradio etc., it does seem like we should update first
before deleting.  I don't see the point of keeping software that nobody
wants to run, but removing things that are old when it breaks other
packages seems best avoided.