Hi Ralph, On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 08:18:32AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2018 07:44:26 +0100 > Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > > > (CC me.) > > > > Hi, > > > > I was about to recommend package anki to a young student that's > > learning computing, but then realised the it's missing from Debian > > stable due to the Qt4 → Qt5 switch. It's in old-stable and unstable. > > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/anki > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/education/anki > > > > I'd guess this makes it a contender for backports > > No - it needs to be in testing to be a contender for stretch-backports. > > So that means fixing the three RC bugs in unstable first. > > Updating anki introduces new bugs: #855942, #856110, #895411 > > >, especially since it > > isn't just old on stable, but missing; that must cause problems for > > oldstable users that upgrade. > > > > Apologies if this list is the wrong place to raise this; > > It's the right place but the package is not currently suitable. Sadly, even if those RC bugs are fixed, a stretch-backport of Anki looks like is probably infeasible due to a hard dependency on QT ≥ 5.9 ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855942#18 ), while stretch has 5.7.1. AFAIK, if qt-5.9 was backported it would break every QT package in stretch, which would then need to be rebuild against it and also uploaded to backports. Consequently it doesn't seem like it will be possible to provide Anki in stretch :-( I'd be happy to be wrong! Sincerely, Nicholas
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