On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Ana Guerrero <a...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Ana Guerrero <a...@debian.org> 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. >> > > > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:29:39PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> You miss qucs for instance. > > I did not mean to be exhaustive. All the packages using Qt3 have at least one > person who consider them important or they would not be in the archive. > >> I suppose qt3 is near bug free ? >> > > It has 21 bugs. The important point here is you would become also *upstream*.
No they are trinirty qt3 :) Could you offer me sponsorship ? Bastien > >> Could help to maintain but in team >> > > There are plenty of one-person teams in Debian :-) > > 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/banlktin4pqfejf102rwehdummbojdp9...@mail.gmail.com