[Pkg-gambas-devel] Bug#807061: Bug#807061: Bug#807061: gambas 3.8.0 needed! very deprecated gambas 3.6 in sid/jeesie

[Ian Haywood]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 6:04 AM, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez
<jredrejo at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Gianfranco, thanks for your help.

> 2015-12-16 16:10 GMT+01:00 Gianfranco Costamagna
> <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>:
>>
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> I did update to 3.8.4 a few seconds ago, built and tested on a clean sid
>> environment.
>>
>> I had to tweak the control file for the gsl library transition (changes
>> pushed on git),
>> closed this bug in changelog, and I also had to remove the qt4 stuff (I
>> ran dpkg -i on all the
>> built .deb files and it obviously failed because of the conflict)
>>
>> I also changed some duplicated build dependency, triggering some lintian
>> warning.
The alternative is to patch the gambas runtime so it prefers qt5, this
allows qt4 and qt5 to co-exist.
However I'm not sure this matters: in Gambas there are absolutely no
API differences between qt4/qt5,
all you have to do is change the settings to use gb.gui.qt, which
people will have to do anyway to access WebView

We should keep the Conflicts however, so that when people upgrade
their old version of gambas3-gb-qt4
is deleted, otherwise total havoc will ensue.

>> Since we have some RC bugs, and many many fixes in experimental (and the
>> package isn't in testing right now)
>> how do you feel about uploading on unstable?
I think so, we can wait to see if anyone complains about the lack of qt4 ;-)

As an aside: what ever happened to the debian/patches directory and
the patches that were in there?

Ian