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Re: Qt4 removal plan



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 fixed the original reason for suggesting this, namely qt4-libs not
building on netbsd-current.

Can we please do this on a more sensible timeline?


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