Please port your package away from Qt 4

[Simon Quigley]

Currently Qt 4 has been dead upstream and we are starting to have problems maintaining it, like for example in the OpenSSL 1.1 support case.

Following in the footsteps of Debian[1], all packages directly or indirectly depending on qt4-x11 (like this one) must either get ported to Qt 5 and uploaded to the development release or get removed (by means of demotion to -proposed or removal of the package) before the 19.04 release. If it is possible to port your package by the 18.10 release, please do so.

If you have any questions about porting or this transition, please ask in #ubuntu-qt (preferred) or directly ping me

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal

[Rik Mills (rikmills)]

This has now been removed from debian testing, and will be removed from unstable in February.

Please remove from Focal.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

please not.

Check debian experimental, I'll upload to debian unstable during the week.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

and also, I'll have scribus-ng removed (again).

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

This conversation directly affects the default installation of Ubuntu Studio, so, as the flavor lead, I'm wondering a couple of things:

1) Right now, focal has scribus-ng with Qt5. Is that being removed?
2) If so, has scribus (proper) been ported to Qt5?

I need to know these things because the next time I refresh the seed, this will be affected.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

Yes to both

(basically, I ported the version that's currently in scribus-ng into scribus, way ahead of schedule)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package scribus - 1.5.5+dfsg-4

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scribus (1.5.5+dfsg-4) experimental; urgency=low

  * Merge scribus-ng and its whole history into scribus, releasing as stable.
   + NEW MAJOR VERSION 1.5.5.
     - Completely rewritten text layout engine. Closes: #737983
     - Move to Qt5. Closes: #875180; LP: #1757865
  * Add a NEWS item regarding the version bump.
  * d/control: Drop hard-coded dependency on python. Closes: #948430

 -- Mattia Rizzolo <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:13:07 +0100