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Bug#1057407: texworks: Intent to drop poppler-qt6 on i386

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On Monday, December 4, 2023 2:43:46 PM CET Jeremy Bícha wrote:

> As the maintainer of Debian's poppler source package, I would like to
> drop poppler's Qt6 packages on i386. This would allow Debian's and
> Ubuntu's poppler packaging to be in sync. Ubuntu has dropped i386
> support except for enablement of games and similar legacy apps but
> none of those apps need Qt6. Based on debian-devel discussion in June,
> I expect Debian to eventually take a similar approach to i386.

I think this should wait until Debian has taken such approach.

> texworks is the only package that uses poppler's Qt6 in Debian. Please
> let me know if it's ok with you if texworks is no longer built for
> i386 in Debian.

I would expect most poppler-qt5 using packages to switch to poppler-qt6 over 
the next 6 months. Especially I expect Okular, KDE's document viewer to switch 
over in beginning of march, and I don't expect us to drop that yet.

/Sune
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kid I was pretending that I fit into the rules and structures of this world. 
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Bug#1057407: texworks: Intent to drop poppler-qt6 on i386 Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> - 2023-12-04 14:50 +0100
  Bug#1057407: texworks: Intent to drop poppler-qt6 on i386 Sune Stolborg Vuorela <sune@debian.org> - 2023-12-20 11:10 +0100
    Bug#1057407: texworks: Intent to drop poppler-qt6 on i386 Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> - 2023-12-20 15:40 +0100
      Bug#1057407: texworks: Intent to drop poppler-qt6 on i386 Sune Stolborg Vuorela <sune@debian.org> - 2023-12-20 17:00 +0100
  Bug#1057407: texworks: Intent to drop poppler-qt6 on i386 Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> - 2023-12-20 15:30 +0100

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