Bug#894581: RM: scidavis/1:1.22-1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org

On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 23:29 +0200, Georges Khaznadar wrote:
> Scidavis hardly relies on Qt4 and its Qt3 compatibility facilities.
> It still uses an obsolete version of Qwt and QwtPlot.
> 
> I tried to fork the latest upstream source and begin to migrate
> code from Qt4 to Qt5, but the task appears as quite difficult,
> since many obsolete Qt3 structures are still in use, and that quite
> a lot of Qwt structures are now unsupported with the recent qwt
> release (the
> only compatible with Qt5).
> 
> As messages asking for an update at upstream level got no reply
> during the
> last three months, and that no git branch was opened recently to
> address
> this issue in the upstream repository, I suspect that Scidavis will
> never be ported to Qt5 by upstream developers.
> 
> So, I ask for the removal of the package Scidavis from both Testing
> and
> Unstable distributions, as I do not consider to make this migration.
> 

Then you need to be requesting removal from unstable, which is the FTP
Team's area; reassigning.

Regards,

Adam