Hi, Is somebody going to work in the new java version or I should ask for removal?
Ana ----- Forwarded message from Ana Guerrero <[email protected]> ----- From: Ana Guerrero <[email protected]> Reply-To: Ana Guerrero <[email protected]>, [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 21:02:12 +0200 Subject: Bug#604590: Preparations for the removal of the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries Message-ID: <[email protected]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:45:54AM +0100, Eckhart Wörner wrote: > Source: earth3d > Severity: wishlist > User: [email protected] > Usertags: qt3libs-removal > > > Dear maintainer, > > The Debian Qt/KDE team is planning to remove the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries from > Debian shortly after the Squeeze release. The transition phase to KDE4 and > Qt4 > will finish since both KDE and Nokia upstream don't maintain the old versions > of those libraries anymore. > > In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on > the KDE3/Qt3 libraries have to either get ported to KDE4/Qt4 or eventually > get > removed from the Debian repositories. > > Therefore, please take the time and: > - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a KDE4/Qt4 > port of your application > - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there are > suitable alternatives for your users > - if there is a KDE4/Qt4 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it > - if both the KDE3/Qt3 and the KDE4/Qt4 version already coexist in the Debian > archives, consider removing the KDE3/Qt3 version > > Documentation on how to port to KDE4 can be found at: > http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Development/Tutorials/KDE4_Porting_Guide > > Documentation on how to port to Qt4 can be found at: > http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/porting4.html Hello maintainers, One year and a half later, it is about time to remove Qt3. If there is not a Qt4 version, we should remove this package. In the case of earth3d seems to be a java version, could you look at packaging this version instead? Thanks, Ana ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
