Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
Hi, I'd like to remove the support for Nepomuk in src:kde4libs. Since Nepomuk has been deprecated, and already unused in Debian for quite some time, this allows us to drop src:soprano & src:shared-desktop-ontologies. The result is the drop of 3 library packages from src:kde4libs: libnepomuk4, libnepomukquery4a, and libnepomukutils4. The reason of this transition is that libnepomuk was so far listed as public library dependency for the kde4 versions of kio (libkio5), and kparts (libkparts4), resulting in overlinking. Fortunately, almost all the packages either already link in as-needed more, or switched to KDE Frameworks 5. The only exception is src:kpartsplugin. Hence, the plan is the following: 1) upload src:kde4libs without Nepomuk support 2) binNMU src:kpartsplugin I verified that src:kpartsplugin builds fine even without Nepomuk libraries, effectively not linking against them anymore. I also did a rebuild of all the other sources still using kdelibs 4.x, and there were no changes in their build. PS: since I uploaded kde4libs 4:4.14.38-1 yesterday, I'd wait for it to migrate to testing, first. Ben file: title = "kde4libs without nepomuk"; is_affected = .depends ~ /\blibnepomuk/; is_good = ''; is_bad = .depends ~ /\blibnepomuk/; Thanks, -- Pino
