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

[Ray Chason]

I don't have a problem with waiting for a future release.  Nor with
Qt 5 -- nethack-i18n links against Qt 5 on my Mac, and I've already
put in a few bits to make that work.  The step from Qt 4 to 5 isn't
nearly as big as from 3 to 4.  It should take very little work to get
this running with Qt 5.

I'll be back as soon as I've tried it, in a day or two at most.


On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Vincent Cheng <vcheng at debian.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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