SoundKonverter - Fw: Re: SoundKonverter renoved from Debian 13 ;-(

[Justin Zobel]

It is not on KDE's GitLab. It is not a KDE app.

Justin

On 22/8/25 20:13, phil995511 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I received the following additional information, which I'm sharing with you. In addition to lacking a maintainer on Debian, SoundKonverter no longer appears to be compilable for Debian due to its use of the outdated Qt5 library and its incompatibility with new Qt6/KF6 library (see message below).
>
> You would be really great to fix this and as much as possible support as much as possible the few Debian maintainers who are volunteers who also have a job, a family, friends, a life to live... There are only 24 hours in a day. They can't be in the oven and at the mill as we say in French...
>
> Thank you in advance for your help and support.
>
> Best regards.
>
>
> ------- Forwarded Message -------
> De : Rik Mills<rik.mills88 at gmail.com>
> Date : vendredi 22 août 2025 à 12:18
> Objet : Re: SoundKonverter renoved from Debian 13 ;-(
> À : phil995511<phil995511 at proton.me>
>
>
>> On 22/08/2025 09:33, phil995511 wrote:
>>
>>> If anyone can tell me the procedure to follow to get SoundConvertor
>>> reintegrated into Debian, I would be extremely grateful.
>>
>> Get it maintained upstream and ported to Qt6/KF6, with a reasonable
>> expectation that upstream will continue to take care of the source. This
>> is the job of upstream maintainers, not debian developers/maintainers.
>>
>> It looks like the 8 year old dead upstream Qt5 version cannot now be
>> built in Debian due to required build dependencies either being
>> incompatible with that old version, or not existing any more in debian
>> either. Hence why these things rightly get removed.
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