Hi Rob. Rob Brewer - 26.08.19, 09:57:19 CEST: > Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > >> Also most of the stuff above is RM'd from Debian archive already > >> and *won't* receive any security updates from now on anymore. > > > > As usual, you can find such packages with > > $ apt-show-versions | fgrep 'No available' > > " knode:amd64 4:4.14.10-7+b3 installed: No available version in > archive " > > So this will presumably leave kde without a working newsreader and > since I use a mail to news gateway to read this list and several > others will mean I will no longer be able to see if this is resolved > unless I jump through a lot of hoops. > > I was aware this would happen someday but it's very sad.
Hmmm… yes. KNode is not maintained by upstream anymore: https://kde.org/applications/unmaintained/org.kde.knode See also: [kdepim4] Future Qt4 removal from Buster https://bugs.debian.org/874947 There has been thoughts to integrate news reading into Akonadi based KMail, but this has never been completed. So unless someone ports KNode to KF 5 / Qt 5, it would be gone for now. You can delay this by not cleaning up and hoping it will be able to remain installed for at least a little longer. But sooner or later… it would be time to say goodbye (or work on it). You may opt to subscribe to the mailing list. I use KMail with it and it works okay. I still use POP3 so I let it download and filter locally into a folder. KMail has good mailing list support, so answers go to the list, unless the sender set a Reply-To to a different location. (I do not recommend the latter.) It is a bit of a pity. For many the Internet is just Web 2.0 anymore. That there is a lot of other services with usable fat clients… Best, -- Martin
