Hi, A couple of weeks ago was the first anniversary of orphaning Qt3 in Debian http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg00236.html The orphaning bug is #625502
In this year, Qt3 has got a few QA uploads with the most relevant change being support to multiarch. And, more importantly, nobody seemed to care enough to step into maintaining it. In the last days, I have taken a look into how much needed to be done to remove Qt3 and there were slightly more than 50 packages depending directly or indirectly from Qt3. A removal from Wheezy seemed doable given that removing packages is never a problem during the Debian freeze ;-) All the packages affected have a bug opened since more than one year and half ago and I have pinged all the bugs with some maintainers responding quick (thanks!). I also filed some removals for packages that were clearly unmaintaineed and didn't seem worth keeping with ftp-masters responding quick too (Thanks!). And a couple of QA upload for orphaned software that were still useful without Qt3. There is a wiki page tracking the status of the removal if you are curious: http://wiki.debian.org/qt3-x11-freeRemoval If in the future, you are reading this and you need Qt3 in Wheezy, you can fetch it from Debian snapshots: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/qt-x11-free/ Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120520165820.ga16...@pryan.ekaia.org
