> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Ana Guerrero <a...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > kdelibs3 was removed recently from the archive and the last tiny bit > > of KDE 3 remaining, aRts, will be removed quite soon. > > > > This means the KDE team is not longer interested in Qt3 and we are looking > > for new maintainer(s). > > > > Personally, I would have gone for removing Qt3 too but the following > > concerns > > have been raised: > > > > - latest LSB 4.1 still needs Qt3 > > - some software using Qt3 do not have any replacement (twinkle has mentioned > > for several users). There is a list of packages using Qt 3 at [1] and > > even if Qt3 is kept in the archive, I am planning to do a QA round of all > > the packages using Qt3. > > - there seem to be a lot of people using their Qt 3 software and Debian in > > scientific environments. > > > > Qt 3 was EOL'ed in July 2007 [2], so if you decide to adopt Qt 3 you won't > > have any support by upstream. Also, if you adopt the package, please > > coordinate with the KDE team so we can push some final changes. > >
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:29:39PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > You miss qucs for instance. I did not mean to be exhaustive. All the packages using Qt3 have at least one person who consider them important or they would not be in the archive. > I suppose qt3 is near bug free ? > It has 21 bugs. The important point here is you would become also *upstream*. > Could help to maintain but in team > There are plenty of one-person teams in Debian :-) Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110504115546.ga11...@pryan.ekaia.org
