[Pkg-octave-devel] building with Qt 5?

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-08-17 12:18]:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:28:12AM -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 19:53:01 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>>> Is upstream officially supporting Qt 5?
>>
>> Yes, the intent since 4.2.0 is to support both. Fedora is shipping 
>> Octave built against Qt 5 now.
>>
>> I have been using Octave with Qt 5 locally, but I don't do a lot of 
>> plotting, and I am affected by some of the known issues with Qt 5 and 
>> OpenGL.
>
> Given that the Qt/KDE wants to remove Qt 4 for buster, and given that upstream 
> supports Qt 5, I think we should do the move right now. This will give us more 
> testing and more time to deal with arising issues.
>
> Does that sound good to you and others?

Ok with me.  Should we start by uploading a version of the package to 
experimental?

Rafael