Bug#874911: [hamfax] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 09:33:12PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 09:05:57PM +0200, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > Source: hamfax
> > 
> > 
> > Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4
> > as [announced] in:
> > 
> > In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on
> > the Qt4 libraries have to either get ported to Qt5 or eventually get
> > removed from the Debian repositories.
> > 
> > Therefore, please take the time and:
> > - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a Qt5
> > port of your application
> > - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there are
> > suitable alternatives for your users
> > - if there is a Qt5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it
> > - if both the Qt4 and the Qt5 versions already coexist in the Debian
> > archives, consider removing the Qt4 version
> 
> We're now moving forward with the QT4 removal.
> 
> hamfax wasn't changed since 2011 and is dead upstream (last commit is from
> 2012). Does anyone of the Debian Hamradio Maintainers intend to port it to
> Qt5 or should it be removed?

I now filed a removal bug.

Cheers,
        Moritz