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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