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

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Thanks Simon for the report.
I think it is a good case to look into in the 18.10 cycle.

Even if we end up unable to resolve it there it will provide the details what the blockers are to get it resolved eventually.

I added it to the kernel teams backlog

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Debian switched to qt5 in:
bacula (9.0.7+dfsg-3) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ Sven Hartge ]
  * Switch to Qt5. (Closes: #874836)

 -- Carsten Leonhardt <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Apr 2018 23:31:17 +0200

Looks like cosmic is covered:
 bacula | 9.0.6-1build1 | bionic/universe | source, all
 bacula | 9.0.8-1 | cosmic/universe | source, all

Ok to close?

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Good enough for me. :)

Thanks, Andreas!