On Monday, May 6, 2019 1:36:56 AM CEST you wrote: > On Sunday, March 24, 2019 12:05:40 AM CEST Sandro Knauß wrote: > > Hey, > > > > FreeBSD removed Qt4 compelty last weekend from their repo. > > > > hefee > > I've perused the list there, > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=495967, > I'm pretty sure I won't be missing anything. > We should try it.
Hum, seems I misunderstood; I've been a bit carried away by this removal thing. What I understand now is that it really is postponed to after Buster release. https://lists.debian.org/ debian-qt-kde/2019/04/msg00007.html[1] Probably strategically a very good idea. > Chris > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > > > Subject: Re: [SECURITY] CVE-2019-7443 (kauth) in kdelibs > > Date: Samstag, 23. März 2019, 22:54:08 CET > > From: Tobias C. Berner > > To: Sandro Knauß, Adriaan de Groot > > > > Moin moin > > > > > > On FreeBSD we just solved this be removing that stuff too > > [KDE4 and things depending on it was removed 2018-12-31, Qt4 last > > weekend.] > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=495967 > > > > I was kind of scared of having a big backlash to this action -- though > > there was none in the end. > > So as an advice from kde@FreeBSD's side: just pull the plug and remove > > that > > stuff :) > > > > mfg Tobias > > > > On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 at 12:35, Sandro Knauß wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > kdelibs last release was 4.14.35 in August 2017. > > > > > > > > kdelibs is no longer maintained. > > > > > > > > Qt 4 last release was 4.8.7 in May 2015. > > > > > > > > Qt 4 is no longer maintained. > > > > > > > > Our suggestion is to stop using any qt4/kdelibs based software and > > > > move > > > > > > to > > > > > > > the future if you're concerned about security and/or want to use > > > > > > maintained > > > > > > > software. > > > > > > It is not that we do not try it, to remove Qt4 from Debian. We try since > > > Aug > > > 2017 to reach this goal to remove all qt4/kdelibs software, but still > > > there is > > > a lot depending on qt4/kdelibs: > > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal > > > > > > (If you have any notes about status of packages aka dead by upstream - > > > input > > > is very welcomed). > > > > > > In next Debian Buster released in some months we still need to ship qt4/ > > > kdelibs. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > hefee -------- [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2019/04/msg00007.html
