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Hello, a recent message[1] to the release-team mailing list suggested that KDE Telepathy is de facto dead, due to lack of maintenance with the exception of infrequent contributions. Now, the problem seems also to affect the upstream Telepathy project, which is mostly dormant. Recently, a component used by KTP (the Qt bindings for Telepathy) broke with CMake 3.9 (and a fix or a release is not in sight; there has been no significant activity since 2015). At this point, with many parts of the stack that are likely bitrotting, and even a mostly dead upstream, it is the time to wonder whether KTP should be still part of Applications. It was suggested to keep it if it didn't break, but as I mentioned, some dependencies *are* already broken. Therefore, I would suggest for it to be dropped from the next Applications release (17.12). For what it's worth, it's being already dropped from openSUSE Tumbleweed (and the future stable versions as well), unless, of course, the impasse can be solved, but IMO it would just move the line to the next breakage (which is going to happen, sooner or later), [1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2017-August/010494.html -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team GPG key ID: A29D259B
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