On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 05:22:27PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2017-08-17 12:18]: > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:28:12AM -0700, Mike Miller wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 19:53:01 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > > > Is upstream officially supporting Qt 5? > > > > > > Yes, the intent since 4.2.0 is to support both. Fedora is shipping > > > Octave built against Qt 5 now. > > > > > > I have been using Octave with Qt 5 locally, but I don't do a lot of > > > plotting, and I am affected by some of the known issues with Qt 5 > > > and OpenGL. > > > > Given that the Qt/KDE wants to remove Qt 4 for buster, and given that > > upstream supports Qt 5, I think we should do the move right now. This > > will give us more testing and more time to deal with arising issues. > > > > Does that sound good to you and others? > > Ok with me. Should we start by uploading a version of the package to > experimental? I would say yes, because of the ongoing ligfortran4 transition. Since we are not sure that Octave/Qt5 compiles on all release archs, if we uploaded it now to unstable, we could interfere with that transition. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ http://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ http://www.debian.org
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