Hi On quarta-feira, 23 de agosto de 2017 12:46:39 -03 Luca Beltrame 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).
I tried building the latest git of TelepathyQt using latest available CMake (3.9.1) and it worked fine, I am interested in knowing what exactly is broken there. That alone still does not solve the problem of KTP being unmaintained, but at least it is not broken. > 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), Just out of curiosity, what would be the alternative here? Getting back to Kopete? Cheers Gustavo Boiko