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On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:41:56 +0100 |
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Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o> wrote: |
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> # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o> (03 Dec 2017) |
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> # Dead upstreams, depending on dead qt3support/qt4. |
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> # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #631788 |
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> ... |
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> games-kids/crayon-physics |
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This is a commercial game that I have played in the past and still have |
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installed. I think you have to take special consideration over packages |
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for things that people have paid money for. You can't so easily say |
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"Oh just play another game then." You also can't expect "upstream" to |
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address the issue. We have sometimes left vulnerable commercial games |
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masked in the tree but in this case, the offender is the Qt4 |
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dependency. I'm guessing that we won't be leaving Qt4 masked in the |
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tree so I'm not sure what to suggest. The game does bundle some |
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libraries but Qt4 isn't one of them, not that that would be a great |
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idea anyway. |
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I wondered if this would also affect Steam but Qt isn't in the |
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Ubuntu-based runtime so any game using it would need to bundle it with |
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the game itself. I haven't come across any other commercial games using |
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Qt but this proves that there is at least one. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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