Bug#604353: jugglemaster & Qt4

[Per Johan Groland]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Jugglemaster upstream,
>
> The Debian Qt/KDE team are looking at removing Qt3/KDE3 soon after the
> next Debian release. Are there any efforts in progress to port
> Jugglemaster to Qt4?

I do not know of any such efforts. The QT version that is in the
repository was created primarily to support Sharp Zaurus and similar
small-screen devices. I guess porting it to QT4 should not be very
hard, but I unfortunately do not have time for it at present.

-Per

>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Eckhart Wörner <ewoerner at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> The Debian Qt/KDE team is planning to remove the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries from
>> Debian shortly after the Squeeze release. The transition phase to KDE4 and Qt4
>> will finish since both KDE and Nokia upstream don't maintain the old versions
>> of those libraries anymore.
>>
>> In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on
>> the KDE3/Qt3 libraries have to either get ported to KDE4/Qt4 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 KDE4/Qt4
>> port of your application
>> - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there are
>> suitable alternatives for your users
>> - if there is a KDE4/Qt4 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it
>> - if both the KDE3/Qt3 and the KDE4/Qt4 version already coexist in the Debian
>> archives, consider removing the KDE3/Qt3 version
>>
>> Documentation on how to port to KDE4 can be found at:
>> http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Development/Tutorials/KDE4_Porting_Guide
>>
>> Documentation on how to port to Qt4 can be found at:
>> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/porting4.html
>>
>> For any questions and issues, do not hesitate to contact the Debian Qt/KDE
>> team at debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
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>