qt4 packages

qt4 packages

[Efraim Flashner]

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./pre-inst-env guix refresh -l qt@4
Building the following 9 packages would ensure 11 dependent packages are rebuilt: tipp10@2.1.0 qucs-s@0.0.20 lmms@1.1.3 poppler-qt4@0.72.0 avogadro@1.2.0 pybitmessage@0.6.3.2 mumble@1.2.19 texmacs@1.99.9 uim-qt@1.8.8

tipp10 Debian continues to build with qt-4
qucs-s demands qt-4
lmms has a new release which may build with qt-5
poppler-qt4 has no packages depending on it
avogadro Debian continues to build with qt-4
pybitmessage looks like it has qt5 support about to be merged in
mumble looks like it can be built with qt5 after their 1.3.0 release
texmacs Debian dropped 2(?) versions ago
uim-qt looks like it supports building with qt-5

It looks like we can drop poppler-qt4 as it is.


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Re: qt4 packages

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

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Efraim, Guix,

Efraim Flashner 写道：
> tipp10 Debian continues to build with qt-4

In cases like this one (where the software has been unmaintained 
for years), is the plan simply to remove them altogether?

(Fine by me,)

T G-R

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Re: qt4 packages

[Andreas Enge]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 09:17:02PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> texmacs Debian dropped 2(?) versions ago

I just added it during the Guile/Guix days at Strasbourg, please do not
drop it... Also, it is a GNU project. It may have been removed from Debian
because it depends on guile-1.8; but there is hope they will eventually
move to a more recent version.

Andreas

Re: qt4 packages

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 15.07.19 um 20:54 schrieb Tobias Geerinckx-Rice:
> Efraim, Guix,
>
> Efraim Flashner 写道：
>> tipp10 Debian continues to build with qt-4
>
> In cases like this one (where the software has been unmaintained for
> years), is the plan simply to remove them altogether? 


Why drop a package which is still okay, just because it it unmaintained?


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Re: qt4 packages

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 09:48:36PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 09:17:02PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> > texmacs Debian dropped 2(?) versions ago
> 
> I just added it during the Guile/Guix days at Strasbourg, please do not
> drop it... Also, it is a GNU project. It may have been removed from Debian
> because it depends on guile-1.8; but there is hope they will eventually
> move to a more recent version.
> 

Sorry, this is my bad. On IRC yestday it was mentioned that
javascriptcore in qt-4 wasn't building on core-updates and the
suggestion was made to drop it. I should've mentioned it in my original
post. Seeing as Debian aparently still supports (most of) qt-4 it may be
worth looking at how they do that.

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Re: qt4 packages

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

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Efraim,

Efraim Flashner 写道：
> Seeing as Debian aparently still supports (most of) qt-4 it may 
> be
> worth looking at how they do that.

Quite the opposite, actually: https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal

Kind regards,

T G-R

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Re: qt4 packages

[ng0]

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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice transcribed 672 bytes:
> Efraim, Guix,
> 
> Efraim Flashner 写道：
> > tipp10 Debian continues to build with qt-4
> 
> In cases like this one (where the software has been unmaintained for years),
> is the plan simply to remove them altogether?
> 
> (Fine by me,)
> 
> T G-R

As Hartmut, Ricardo and you touched this package in guix: did you ever
manage to get a feedback from upstream? You are using the debian
distribution of it, but getting patches in still seemed like a good
idea to me (for pkgsrc). It's been a long time since I've contacted
the author, no nothing so far.

Cheers,
ng0

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