On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 07:56:26PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > Hi, > > kdelibs3 was removed recently from the archive and the last tiny bit > of KDE 3 remaining, aRts, will be removed quite soon. > > This means the KDE team is not longer interested in Qt3 and we are looking > for new maintainer(s). > > Personally, I would have gone for removing Qt3 too but the following concerns > have been raised: > > - latest LSB 4.1 still needs Qt3 > - some software using Qt3 do not have any replacement (twinkle has mentioned > for several users). There is a list of packages using Qt 3 at [1] and > even if Qt3 is kept in the archive, I am planning to do a QA round of all > the packages using Qt3. > - there seem to be a lot of people using their Qt 3 software and Debian in > scientific environments. > > Qt 3 was EOL'ed in July 2007 [2], so if you decide to adopt Qt 3 you won't > have any support by upstream. Also, if you adopt the package, please > coordinate with the KDE team so we can push some final changes. > > If there are no adopters in the next 3 weeks, I will do an orphaning upload > (and file the O: bug) with the changes mentioned earlier.
Change of plans. Due the switch to GCC 4.6, 48 packages using Qt 3 failed to build from source. This was already reported against Qt3 with a patch, see bug report #611255 (Thanks Riddell!) and Modestas did a quick upload fixing the issue plus the other final issues we wanted to address. See changelog [1] We took advantage of the upload to also orphan Qt3. Orphaning bug is #625502. If you want Qt3 is wheezy (or any of the packages that need Qt3), please, step up soon. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2011/05/msg00294.html Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110503222439.ga30...@pryan.ekaia.org