Today Qt 4 (aka src:qt4-x11) has been removed from Debian bullseye, what as of today we know as "testing". We plan to remove it from unstable pretty soon.

I was in need of creating a Qt application using current Debian stable (Stretch) and gpsd. I could have used libQgpsmm which creates a QTcpSocket for stablishing the connection to the gpsd daemon. But then I hit an issue: libQgpsmm was switched to Qt 5 after the Strech release, namely …

As you probably already know Ubuntu (and then Debian) added Multi-Arch support quite some time ago. This means that you can install library packages from multiple architectures on the same machine. Thanks to the work of many people, in which I would like to specially mention Helmut Grohne, we are …

As in my previous blogpost I'm taking a look at our Qt4 removal wiki page. Of a total of 438 filed bugs: 181 bugs (41.32%) have been already fixed by either porting the app/library to Qt 5 or a removal from the archive has happened. On most cases …