Bug#1057407: texworks: Intent to drop poppler-qt6 on i386
On Monday, December 4, 2023 2:43:46 PM CET Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> As the maintainer of Debian's poppler source package, I would like to
> drop poppler's Qt6 packages on i386. This would allow Debian's and
> Ubuntu's poppler packaging to be in sync. Ubuntu has dropped i386
> support except for enablement of games and similar legacy apps but
> none of those apps need Qt6. Based on debian-devel discussion in June,
> I expect Debian to eventually take a similar approach to i386.
I think this should wait until Debian has taken such approach.
> texworks is the only package that uses poppler's Qt6 in Debian. Please
> let me know if it's ok with you if texworks is no longer built for
> i386 in Debian.
I would expect most poppler-qt5 using packages to switch to poppler-qt6 over
the next 6 months. Especially I expect Okular, KDE's document viewer to switch
over in beginning of march, and I don't expect us to drop that yet.
/Sune
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