On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 08:57:23PM +0100, Eckhart Wörner wrote: > Source: turqstat > Severity: wishlist > User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: qt3libs-removal > > > Dear maintainer, > > The Debian Qt/KDE team is planning to remove the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries from > Debian shortly after the Squeeze release. The transition phase to KDE4 and > Qt4 > will finish since both KDE and Nokia upstream don't maintain the old versions > of those libraries anymore. > > In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on > the KDE3/Qt3 libraries have to either get ported to KDE4/Qt4 or eventually > get > removed from the Debian repositories. > > Therefore, please take the time and: > - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a KDE4/Qt4 > port of your application > - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there are > suitable alternatives for your users > - if there is a KDE4/Qt4 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it > - if both the KDE3/Qt3 and the KDE4/Qt4 version already coexist in the Debian > archives, consider removing the KDE3/Qt3 version > > Documentation on how to port to KDE4 can be found at: > http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Development/Tutorials/KDE4_Porting_Guide > > Documentation on how to port to Qt4 can be found at: > http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/porting4.html >
Hello maintainer(s), One year and a half later, it is about time to remove Qt3. In the case of turqstat, could you please drop from your binaries the tools using Qt3? Or, migrate to the Qt4 version (if existing). Thanks, Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
