How hard could it be? Deprecation of Qt4
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The latest of the Qt 4.X series was released in 2011. Since then, many applications have been ported to Qt 5. This has been accelerated by the move from KF4 to KF5, as KDE-based applications are one of the largest consumers of Qt. The following is a table of our remaining Qt 4 packages, along with details regarding their Qt 5 migration status.

Name	Version	Qt5 Ready?	Source	Done
bitmessage	0.6.2	In progress, see here	Here	Deprecated
dukto	6.0	No. It's dead. @JoshStrobl will deprecate it from repo.
fbreader	0.99.4	Dead project (see here )	Gtk?
flacon	2.1.1	Yes (4.0.0)	Here	Yes
graphviz	2.40.10	Yes (2.42.x)	Patch
hedgewars	0.9.22	Yes (0.9.24)	Here	Yes
hydrogen	0.9.7	Yes (1.0.0-beta1)	Here
klayout	0.25.1	Yes	Here	Yes
lmms	1.2.0	Yes	Here	Yes
mixxx	2.0.0	Yes (2.2.0 - unreleased)	Here	Yes
mp3diags	1.2.03	No, will be deprecated	Here
mumble	1.2.19	Yes (>=1.3.0rc1)	Here	Yes
natron	2.3.4	In-progress, qt5 buildable but buggy, see here	Here
picard	1.4.2	Yes (2.0.0beta2)	Here	Yes
puddletag	1.2.0	No	Here	Deprecated
python-pyside	1.2.4	Yes (PySide2)	Here
python-qscintilla	2.10.2	Yes	python-qscintilla-qt5	Yes
qca	2.1.3	Yes	qca-qt5	Yes
qjson	0.9.0	No	Here	Yes
qscintilla	2.10.2	Yes	qscintilla-qt5	Yes
scribus	1.4.6	Yes (1.5.3 dev)	Here
shiboken	1.2.4	Yes (PySide2)	Here
tagainijisho	1.0.3	In-Progress	Here
testdisk	7.0	Yes	Here	Yes
tortoisehg	4.4.1	Yes (4.5.2)	See setup.py	Yes
x2goclient	4.1.0.0	In-Progress	See Install	Yes

Notes

Uses shiboken - natron python-pyside
- Uses python-pyside - natron syncplay
Uses python-qt4 - bitmessage puddletag
python3-qt4 can be deprecated (nothing uses it)

Related Objects

Mentioned In: R3024:526e7de5b734: Update testdisk to 7.1
R3189:a5e03c81d232: Update x2goclient to 4.1.2.1 & switch to Qt5
D6777: Update x2goclient to 4.1.2.1 & switch to Qt5
D6756: Update testdisk to 7.1
R1974:797198926441: Update lmms to 1.2.0 and enable more features
D6546: Update lmms to 1.2.0 and enable more features
R3346:b71c018d4c18: Update cgal to 4.13 & build against Qt5
T7035: QtCore pkg-config errors
D3960: Update cgal to 4.13 & build against Qt5
R2677:d4d5ed562385: Drop Qt4 Support
R2734:3edc049a4410: Drop Qt4 support
R2723:ec09acbafaa0: Drop qt4 support from qca
T6792: Meta: Week 33 Weekend Tasklist
D2712: Initial commit of scikit-image
T208: Freecad
D2625: Drop qt4 support from qca
Mentioned Here: T272: Clementine Music Player
T2122: Clementine music player
T5536: clementine music player

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DataDrake created this task.Mar 22 2018, 2:14 PM

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kyrios123 added a subscriber: kyrios123.Mar 22 2018, 2:46 PM

yubikey-neo-manager can be deprecated, it is so upstream. I was waiting for it's replacement yubikey-manager-qt to be out of beta first but, feature wise it's already on par.

@joebonrichie As per our package inclusion policy:

Typically, we prefer stable tagged releases. However, this may be waived if:
The software has significant traction (i.e. prerelease)
A bug fix only exists beyond the latest stable release for a git source

IMO yubikey-manager-qt would fall under "has significant traction".

@joebonrichie why don't you give yubikey-manager-qt a go at packaging and let us know how it goes. If there aren't any issues, then we can make a decision.

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joebonrichie updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 22 2018, 9:59 PM

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We have yubikey-manager-qt packaged already, will deprecate yubikey-neo-manager.

joebonrichie updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 22 2018, 10:25 PM

joebonrichie updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 22 2018, 10:51 PM

Picard's Qt5 support starts from v2.0.0, which is currently in beta.

➜  picard git:(master) git --no-pager diff release-1.4.2 release-2.0.0beta1 -- picard/tagger.py
diff --git a/picard/tagger.py b/picard/tagger.py
index 9c83f5a7..62c276ce 100644
--- a/picard/tagger.py
+++ b/picard/tagger.py
@@ -18,15 +18,15 @@
 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 
-from __future__ import print_function
 import sip
 
 sip.setapi("QString", 2)
 sip.setapi("QVariant", 2)
 
-from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
+from PyQt5 import QtGui, QtCore, QtWidgets
 
 import argparse
+import logging
 import os.path
 import platform
 import re

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joebonrichie mentioned this in D2625: Drop qt4 support from qca.Mar 26 2018, 10:13 PM

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joebonrichie updated the task description. (Show Details)May 7 2018, 5:14 PM

Could I please request the inclusion of Clementine on this list?

Relevant Package Requests
T272 T5536 T2122

[Edit]
Actually, I may have misunderstood the purpose of this list. I didn't realize it was for current packages. My bad!

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Jacalz mentioned this in D6546: Update lmms to 1.2.0 and enable more features.Jun 18 2019, 4:14 PM

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joebonrichie updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 15 2019, 2:28 PM

Please mark LMMS as done now that 1.2.0 is in the repositories.

JoshStrobl updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 15 2019, 4:10 PM

testdisk 7.1 is out. Please allow me to update it.

@livingsilver94 It has no designated MAINTAINERS.md file, go for it. If no MAINTAINERS.md file exists and there should be, we'll accept the patch and proactively add it.

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Mumble should now be possible to mark as done with the release and inclusion of version 1.3.0 👍

joebonrichie updated the task description. (Show Details)Tue, Sep 10, 6:49 PM