Qt4 is dead and going away. Debian has dropped this package, please check if upstream has a Qt5 port available, if not, if there is any need for it in tree.
Let's use this bug to kick off removal of app-i18n/* Qt4 support before it is blocking Qt4 removal itself. At this point, the majority of leaf Qt4 reverse-dependencies is already pending removal or has updates queued up for stabilisation. Affected packages: app-i18n/fcitx app-i18n/fcitx-unikey app-i18n/ibus-qt app-i18n/qimhangul app-i18n/scim app-i18n/scim-bridge app-i18n/tagainijisho app-i18n/uim
PR is removing optional Qt4 dependencies. I could not find newer releases for the following packages where Qt4 dependency is mandatory: app-i18n/ibus-qt app-i18n/qimhangul app-i18n/tagainijisho
app-i18n/tagainijisho -> bug #655416
Fcitx, IBus, SCIM, UIM are special. They are not GTK+/Qt/... applications, but plugins for GTK+/Qt/... which provide critical ability to write in GTK+/Qt/... applications. Therefore they need to be the very last place where GTK+/Qt/... support can be deleted. (Old version of app-i18n/fcitx-unikey will be deleted during next cleanup...) In case of app-i18n/fcitx (and app-i18n/fcitx-meta), the plan is to package.use.mask qt4 USE flag, without dropping support for Qt 4 in ebuilds for now. I think that the same solution is reasonable also for: app-i18n/ibus-qt (package.mask of package for longer time) app-i18n/scim (package.use.mask of qt4 USE flag for longer time) app-i18n/scim-bridge (package.use.mask of qt4 USE flag for longer time) app-i18n/uim (package.use.mask of qt4 USE flag for longer time) (IBus, SCIM and UIM currently have no dedicated maintainers. If a new dedicated maintainer for IBus, SCIM or UIM appears and wants to drop support for Qt 4 earlier, then I will not oppose.) In case of app-i18n/qimhangul, upstream repository (https://github.com/choehwanjin/qimhangul) has no commits after 2011 and no sign of work on support for Qt 5, so package.masking of this package for deletion in 30 days seems to be reasonable.
iBus immodule for Qt5 is integrated in QtGui (dev-qt/qtgui[ibus]), so app-i18n/ibus-qt can be removed. As already Arfrever mentioned, app-i18n/qimhangul seems dead. There is a Qt5 port (https://github.com/peremen/qimhangul-qt5), but I don't know its status.
Presumably app-i18n/ibus-qt should be added to kde-sunset repository.
(In reply to Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis from comment #4) > Fcitx, IBus, SCIM, UIM are special. They are not GTK+/Qt/... applications, > but plugins for GTK+/Qt/... which provide critical ability to write in > GTK+/Qt/... applications. Therefore they need to be the very last place > where GTK+/Qt/... support can be deleted. Technically we can remove Qt4 support in ~arch as soon as everything has a Qt5 upgrade available in ~arch. Not opposed to package.use.mask though. > (Old version of app-i18n/fcitx-unikey will be deleted during next cleanup...) Why not do it now?
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0c1a787876320cd3488d7f80878c2cf54ed2897b commit 0c1a787876320cd3488d7f80878c2cf54ed2897b Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-05-10 18:03:49 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-06-27 19:00:21 +0000 profiles: Mask Qt4-depending app-i18n/* packages for removal Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/644728 profiles/package.mask | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6a543ac64d80e5ddb860e1653a269261f5d0e016 commit 6a543ac64d80e5ddb860e1653a269261f5d0e016 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-07-01 16:44:28 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-08-07 07:27:03 +0000 app-i18n/*: Remove last-rited ibus-qt, qimhangul, tagainijisho Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/644728 app-i18n/ibus-qt/Manifest | 1 - app-i18n/ibus-qt/files/ibus-qt-doc.patch | 11 ---- app-i18n/ibus-qt/ibus-qt-1.3.3.ebuild | 53 ------------------- app-i18n/ibus-qt/metadata.xml | 14 ----- app-i18n/qimhangul/Manifest | 1 - app-i18n/qimhangul/metadata.xml | 8 --- app-i18n/qimhangul/qimhangul-0.2.0.ebuild | 17 ------- app-i18n/tagainijisho/Manifest | 1 - .../files/tagainijisho-1.0.3-sqlite.patch | 15 ------ app-i18n/tagainijisho/tagainijisho-1.0.3-r1.ebuild | 59 ---------------------- profiles/package.mask | 6 --- 11 files changed, 186 deletions(-)
