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Re: Qt4 removal plan



On 25.10.2019 23:26, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, at 17:13:45 +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>> On 25.10.2019 16:55, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> What packages are concerned ? "dead upstream" doesn't mean it's not
>> used.
>>>
>>
>> From the concerned packages: librecad. No release since 2016.
>>
>> Last RC with qt5 was 2 years ago.
>>
>> https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases
>>
>> They might have bigger problems with dependencies as FSF moved to
>> GPLv3
>> and GPLv2 is incompatible.
>>
>> Another one is SASM
>>
>> https://github.com/Dman95/SASM/
>>
>> I propose to remove them and restore once they will be released (if
>> ever) with qt5+ support.
>>
>> If there is anything else, speak up.
> 
> There are various KDE-related apps that I sometimes find useful, e.g.
> kdiff3 (which I see is what Mercurial recommends for a graphical merge
> tool). Generally, these have long been ported to qt5+kf5, pkgsrc just
> doesn't have the more recent versions. I was thinking of updating these
> myself, but hadn't got around to it.
> 
> As Maya suggested, I don't think there's any urgency to remove things
> immediately. The question on some people's minds I imagine will be: "If
> you're deleting KDE4, where's KDE5?"
> 


Please help to upgrade these packages, especially the ones you care about.

> Dave
> 
> 


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