moving Qt 4 from Debian testing (aka Buster): some statistics, update II

As in my previous blogpost I'm taking a look at our Qt4 removal wiki page.

Of a total of 438 filed bugs:

• 181 bugs (41.32%) have been already fixed by either porting the app/library to Qt 5 or a removal from the archive has happened. On most cases the code has been ported and most of the deletions are due to Qt 5 replacements already available in the archive and some due to dead upstreams (ie., no Qt5 port available).
• 257 bugs (58.68%) still need a fix or are fixed in experimental.
• 35 bugs (8% of the total, 13% of the remaining) of the remaining bugs are maintained inside the Qt/KDE team.

 We started filing bugs around September 9. That means roughly 32 weeks which gives us around 5.65 packages fixed per week, aka 0.85 packages per day. Obviously not as good as we started (remaining bugs tend to be more complicated), but still quite good.

So, how can you help?

If you are a maintainer of any of the packages still affected try to get upstream to make a port and package it.

If you are not a maintainer you might want to take a look at the list of packages in our wiki page and try to create a patch for them. If you can submit it directly to upstream, the better. Or maybe it's time for you to become the package's upstream or maintainer!