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Hi, |
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As the Gentoo Qt team has announced six months ago, Qt3 is about to be |
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masked now (see bug 283429). We sent another mail with a timeline at |
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the end of December. Most of the issues surrounding the mask and |
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removal of Qt3 have been solved. But we see ourselves confronted with |
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one remaining issue: MythTV. Its current stable version uses Qt3, but |
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there is a Qt4 version in testing. In all this time the MythTV |
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maintainers have not taken any action. On my initiative a stable |
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candidate was appointed and the result is in bug 299222. But the |
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upgrade procedure is non-trivial, possibly leading to irreparable |
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database corruption. As several users have warned, this upgrade needs |
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a news item and upgrade instructions. But the named maintainer has |
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indicated that he has no time to write these ( see |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299222#c15 ). |
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As just masking stable MythTV, along the other remaining Qt3 ebuilds |
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in the tree, would give users the false impression they could |
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relatively safely upgrade to the ~arch version, the Qt team believes |
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this would be the improper way to proceed. We have decided to slightly |
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postpone the mask of Qt3, in order to give the MythTV team or the QA |
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team the opportunity to produce a news item about this issue. Seeing |
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that the MythTV team has not addressed this issue during the past |
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months, we strongly urge the QA team to step in. |
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If no action is taken soon, we see no other way than to protect the |
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users by masking the complete mythtv package. We hope this won't be |
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necessary. |
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Regards, |
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Ben de Groot |
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Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) |
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