Articles tagged with #planetdebian-en




Porting Qt 4 apps to Qt 5: an example with QAntenna

As a followup for my previous blog post, I decided to port QAntenna to Qt 5. Here's my experience. First of all, I ran Qt 5's qmake: qmake -qt5 Then I just ran make: make The first error that appeared was that QFileDialog does not has a setFilters() method. I …



Does your app use Qt4? You better start porting it to Qt5

As you might know, Qt 4 is now in bug-fixes-only maintenance mode. This means that only bug fixes are allowed to be pushed to Qt 4's repository, but no new features. On the other hand, Qt 5 is already here. Porting existing apps from Qt 4 to Qt 5 is …



Qt 5.2.0 in Debian experimental, now available for more archs

Qt 5.2.0 is already available in experimental until we get a transition slot, but don't be afraid to test it. With this release we had major improvements. With 5.1.1 currently in sid we have the following buildd chart: Qt 5.1.1 in Debian Sid Now …



Qt in Debian: using Qt4 and/or Qt5 in your packages

Hi everyone! We now have both Qt4 and Qt5 in the archive. Those using Qt4 should not need to make any changes in their packages, although you can be extra-safe with a few steps. Don't rush, just read below. Note 2014-12-12: the current official doc is available here. Some background …