I can't see a report on the telepathy Qt bug tracker. Do you have a link? On 23 Aug 2017 4:47 p.m., "Luca Beltrame" <lbeltr...@kde.org> wrote:
> NOTE: this mail comes from a downstream (distributor / integrator) point of > view. Feel free to correct possible errors. Also please try to keep both > lists > in CC. > > 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