After quite some time maintaining Qt in Debian both Dmitry Shachnev and I decided to not maintain Qt 6 when it's published (expected in December 2020, see https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_6.0_Release). We will do our best to keep the Qt 5 codebase up and running.
We **love** Qt, but it's a huge codebase and requires time and build power, both things that we are currently lacking, so we decided it's time for us to step down and pass the torch. And a new major version seems the right point to do that.
We will be happy to review and/or sponsor other people's work or even occasionally do uploads, but we can't promise to do it regularly.
Some things we think potential Qt 6 maintainers should be familiar with are, of course, C++ packaging (specially symbols files) and CMake, as Qt 6 will be built with it.
We also encourage prospective maintainers to remove the source's -everywhere-src suffixes and just keep the base names as source package names: qtbase6, qtdeclarative6, etc.
It has been an interesting ride all these years, we really hope you enjoyed using Qt.
Thanks for everything,
Dmitry and Lisandro.
Note 20200818 12:12 ARST: I was asked if the move has anything to do with code quality or licensing. The answer is a huge no, Qt is a **great** project which we love. As stated before it's mostly about lack of free time to properly maintain it.
Thank you for all your work!
ResponderEliminarThank you guys for all your work!
ResponderEliminarThanks for maintaining the Qt5 packages. I use them for my KDE desktop and for GUI development.
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