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On 12 March 2010 14:18, Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> It would appear that the pending (0321) mask of Qt3 will break |
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> sci-misc/qcad, sci-chemistry/xdrawchem and x11-misc/glunarclock. |
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The mask has already been in place since March 1st. |
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> a) Has research been done to determine whether there are replacements for |
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> these packages and why aren't they suggested in the mask comments? |
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See the discussion in the relevant bugs and on the forums. For qcad |
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see bug #284896 and for xdrawchem bug #299588. Glunarclock is |
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unrelated. |
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> b) If one is forced to run Qt3 in order to support these older packages, is |
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> there *good* documentation on how to do this (and why isn't this |
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> suggested in the mask comments)? |
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Because package.mask is not the right place for documentation. |
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It does refer to bug #283429, the tracker bug for the Qt3 mask and |
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removal. This in turn refers to our announcement [1] which mentions |
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that Qt3 and packages depending on it will remain available in the |
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community-maintained kde-sunset overlay. |
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> So before there is a rush to remove ebuilds it should be asked |
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> whether it is possible to produce a static build and/or whether there is a |
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> clear path provided for the retention of "legacy" packages? |
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There is no rush. We first announced this in July 2009 [2] and then |
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again in December [1]. We have given every opportunity to find |
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appropriate upgrade paths. As mentioned, users who for some |
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reason need or want to keep using legacy packages can use the |
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kde-sunset overlay. |
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1: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_f295c1c2d9d70238d289de3a7ed5bf5c.xml |
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2: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_d851e05567d538b662f34de8dfdb7316.xml |
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Cheers, |
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Ben de Groot |
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Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) |
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