Bug#567142: O: libqwt

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:31:55PM -0500, Michael Hanke wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 01:03:17PM -0500, Michael Hanke wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:54:21AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > > Package: wnpp
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > Orphaning libqwt (version 4) as I no longer have an interest in
> > > packaging it.  Version 5 already exists as a separate package in the
> > > archive.
> > > 
> > > The only remaining dependency on this library is fslview.  Ideally
> > > fslview could be updated to use qwt5, in which case this older qwt could
> > > be removed from the archive.
> > 
> > I will check whether fslview would work with qwt5, and report here.
> 
> I tried simply rebuilding it, but it doesn't work. I started composing a
> patch, but the changes are numerous, so I postponed that for now.
> Instead, I dropped upstream a note, asking about a possible port to
> qwt5.

What are their plans of a port? This would allow us to remove qwt4.

Cheers,
        Moritz