Bug#770749: nethack: Revive the nethack-qt package with Qt 4

[Vincent Cheng]

Control: tag -1 + patch

Hi Ray,

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Ray Chason <chasonr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a Qt 4 interface for NetHack at
> https://github.com/chasonr/nethack-3.4.3-interfaces
> and package data to build a nethack-qt package based on Qt 4.
>
> This Qt 4 interface is derived from my Internationalized NetHack
> project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nethack-i18n/), which, in
> turn, derives its Qt 4 interface at some length from the original Qt 3
> interface. The look and feel is mostly the same.

Thanks for your work! However, your changes are too large to comply
with Jessie's freeze policy (now that Debian is frozen; see [1]), and
Debian's KDE/Qt maintenance team plans on removing Qt 4 from the
archive in favour of Qt 5 post-release [2].

Regards,
Vincent

[1] https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html
[2] http://perezmeyer.blogspot.ca/2014/11/early-announce-qt4-removal-in-jessie1.html