Project:Qt/Meeting/2012-09

Date: 2012-09-05

Time: 1800 - 1937 UTC

Location: #gentoo-meetings on Freenode IRC

Note: Since several members were on holiday early August, it was decided not to hold a meeting then.

0. roll call

 * Present: hwoarang, kensington, pesa, yngwin
 * Absent announced: wired
 * Absent unannounced: abcd, johu

1. Qt5 progress
All praised pesa for his work on Qt5 ebuilds and eclass. Hwoarang requested a chart with interdependencies of Qt5 modules.

open issues:

 * we are still missing ebuilds for qt-webkit and qt-multimedia
 * .pc files are unversioned and will clash between qt:4 and qt:5, TODO pesa: start discussion on upstream ML about slotting/versioning
 * slotted binaries need versioned names; preference was expressed to follow Debian's naming scheme of qmake-qt4 and the like
 * TODO: eselect-qt, qt5-utils.eclass

2. qt4.eclass deprecation

 * media-video/vlc-1.1.13 - security stabilisation in progress in
 * see devmanual

3. qt4-r2.eclass updates

 * translation handling: since l10n.eclass is now in portage, we will deprecate the old LANGS/LANGSLONG variables. (TODO yngwin)
 * we will provide backwards compat for a while, until we are sure all affected ebuilds have migrated.

4. open bugs

 * dev-python/PyQt4 fails to build on systems with improved multilib support: not in a hurry, let's see how multilib progresses
 * [qt overlay] Allow building qt-webkit from standalone repo - TODO kensington, needed for qt5 anyway
 * x11-libs/qt-*- 4.8.2: doesn't respect CXXFLAGS - TODO pesa: ask upstream, but removing USE=optimized-qmake seems to make sense
 * media-video/avidemux-2.6_pre snapshot packaging - TODO hwoarang
 * dev-libs/qjson-0.7.1-r1 problem with serialization QStringList - TODO pesa: ask upstream to release, or package snapshot
 * net-im/psi-0.15_rc1 version bump - qt herd can take over maintainership, TODO hwoarang: ask Nikoli to proxy-maintain this, otherwise yngwin will pick it up
 * media-video/smplayer: local denial of service - DONE kensington: not an issue in 0.8.0 anymore (but smplayer2 is still affected)
 * dev-util/qt-creator-2.5.0: cannot find/use tool chain - TODO hwoarang: try to reproduce and report upstream

5. open floor

 * We will start using our project space on wiki.gentoo.org for meeting agendas, summaries, and similar maintenance documents.
 * Qt 4.8.3 should be released soon