On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Tux99 wrote: > > > Quote: nicolas vigier wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 11:20 > > > The COMPELLING reason has already been said. It's because we don't > > want > > to have software built on a deprecated library in the repository. > > That is not a compelling reason as Xavier's post showed for example. > > Having a qt3-devel packages does not automatically imply having packages > based on it in the official repos.
Why do you want to have a qt3-devel package on the official repos, if it's not to have other packages based on it ? > > Also is there an official rule somewhere that specifies: > > "because we don't want to have software built on a deprecated library in > the repository" > > or is this simply an arbitrary rule that restricts freedoms of users and > other packagers? Nothing prevent you from building the package on your computer if you want it. But we don't want it on the repository for the reasons already explained ...