[Development] The dark side of QtMultimedia

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Nov 24 18:10:59 CET 2014


On Monday 24 November 2014 09:38:17 Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> 2014-11-17 18:49 GMT+02:00 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> > By the way, I read somewhere that some distros are considering not
> > shipping
> > Qt 4 as early as their next releases. I also think that's shortsighted.
> > Keep it in your repos all the way into 2017...
> 
> Debian plans to not have Qt 4 after Debian 8.0 [1]. But that means
> ~2017 indeed for stable release users, the removal itself happening
> during 2015-2016 in the development version. The main reason is that
> Qt 4 upstream support officially ends, and Debian needs to support
> Jessie's Qt4 for critical/security bug fixes at least until 2018, or
> even 2020 if the LTS effort continues.

When did Debian remove Qt3?
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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