On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:30:08AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
> Control: tag -1 - patch
>
> In data mercoledì 6 dicembre 2017 19:33:10 CET, Adrian Bunk ha scritto:
> > Package: dolphin4
> > Version: 4:16.08.3-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: patch buster sid
> >
> > dolphin4 is still linked with libplasma3,
> > which has to be removed for the qtwebkit removal.
>
> NACK.
>
> dolphin4 (which uses kdelibs4) is shipped only to provide file browsing
> capabilities to konqueror (which uses kdelibs4). In recent versions of
> KDE Applications kde-baseapps does not exist anymore, replaced by split
> tarballs (konqueror, kfind, keditbookmarks, kdialog). Only konqueror
> is available in experimental, the others are waiting in NEW. Once all
> are available, they will replace kde-baseapps in unstable (in a
> coordinated upload with kde-l10n, since they ship translations), and
> thus dolphin4 will be removed.
>
> To be honest, it would be much easier if you could *wait* for the
> completion of Applications 17.08 in unstable/testing, so there will be
> few more kdelibs4-using sources either dropped (like dolphin4) or
> ported to Frameworks.
Then kde-baseapps is the only big blocker for the qtwebkit
removal from testing.
And then there are 3 options for the libkonq-using packages
currently in testing (kdiff3/komparator/kile[1]):
1. they get updated to Qt5 and new konqueror
2. remove their usage of libkonq if that's possible
3. get them out of testing
Getting rid of the dolphin4 -> libplasma3 dependency decouples the
qtwebkit removal from kde-baseapps, removing the urgency from
getting rid of kde-baseapps.
> Pino Toscano
cu
Adrian
[1] kile indirectly through konsole4
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