[arch-dev-public] qt>=4 release schedule

[Dan McGee]

On Nov 28, 2007 5:14 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 5:04 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 27. November 2007 22:25:03 schrieb Damir Perisa:
> > > hi devs,
> > >
> > > qtiplot 0.9 is now in testing and cannot be backported to work. (0.8.9
> > > needs old qt>=3 but has also quite some problems for building)
> > >
> > > therefore the only actually working qtiplot is now in testing. it
> > > depends on qt>=4 and pyqt>=4 (and newest qwt and qwtplot3d)
> > >
> > > details here:
> > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6673
> > >
> > > so i'm wondering if there is some news or a schedule of the release of
> > > new qt pkgs now in testing. what needs to be tested/rebuild so that
> > > we can move qt and all other pkgs related to it to extra?
> > >
> > > for me everything qt4 related works so far for me (x86_64).
> > >
> > > - D
> >
> > The qt stuff is quite stable imho. The only showstopper I see atm is pacman
> > itself. It still has the problem that it does not update the dependencies of
> > allready installed packages. Afaik this will only be solved by pacman 3.1.
>
> Could you point me to a bug report here? I'm not sure I remember this one

This is the whole requiredby issue- qt will be left with all the what
should be qt3 deps because of basically a package name change, I
believe.

-Dan