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

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 05:22:27PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> * 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?

I would say yes, because of the ongoing ligfortran4 transition. Since we are
not sure that Octave/Qt5 compiles on all release archs, if we uploaded it now
to unstable, we could interfere with that transition.

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