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From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:56:35
Message-Id: 4B3CBB5E.1010506@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy by Maciej Mrozowski
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4 On 31-12-2009 13:10, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
5 > On Thursday 31 of December 2009 14:43:54 Mark Bateman wrote:
6 >> Ben de Groot <yngwin <at> gentoo.org> writes:
7 >>> As announced 5 months ago[1], Gentoo's Qt team now officially
8 >>> deprecates usage of x11-libs/qt:3 and packages depending on this
9 >>> version of Qt.
10 >>>
11 >>>
12 >>> # Policy for remaining ebuilds depending on qt:3 #
13 >>>
14 >>> * if Qt3 optional, remove this option
15 >>> * if Qt4 depending version stable, remove Qt3 depending versions
16 >>> * if Qt4 depending version in testing, mark stable, then remove older
17 >>> versions * if no Qt4 version in tree, get Qt4 version in testing by
18 >>> 2010-01-21 and stable by 2010-02-21
19 >>> * if no Qt4 version exists, check for equivalent/replacement packages,
20 >>> and mask by 2010-02-21
21 >>>
22 >>> Note: for packages that currently have no version marked stable, the
23 >>> references to stabling Qt4 versions obviously don't apply.
24 >>
25 >>> 1:
26 >> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_d851e05567d538b662f34de8
27 >> dfdb7316.xml
28 >>
29 >>> Cheers,
30 >>
31 >> QUCS is a qt3 only application.
32 >> This is a fantastic electrical simulation package and is in active
33 >> developement.
34 >>
35 >> There is a svn branch for the qt4 port but it isn't there yet.
36 >> Removal of qt3 will break this app that is in the main tree
37 >>
38 >> If the policy is to then remove this app (which would be a very big shame
39 >> since it will mean - based upon past experience - hard to get back in)
40 >> could a hard-mask live ebuild for the svn/nightly be made until the next
41 >> qucs is released
42 >
43 > It could be moved to kde-sunset overlay where legacy KDE3 stuff (like KDE
44 > 3.5.10 itself) is being kept and maintained by the community.
45
46 We can also get an ebuild for the live version in the KDE overlay (if it
47 uses KDE) or the appropriate Qt overlay. Are you interested in
48 contributing an ebuild for it?
49
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51 - --
52 Regards,
53
54 Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
55 Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections
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