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On Thursday 31 of December 2009 14:43:54 Mark Bateman wrote: |
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> Ben de Groot <yngwin <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> > As announced 5 months ago[1], Gentoo's Qt team now officially |
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> > deprecates usage of x11-libs/qt:3 and packages depending on this |
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> > version of Qt. |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > # Policy for remaining ebuilds depending on qt:3 # |
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> > |
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> > * if Qt3 optional, remove this option |
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> > * if Qt4 depending version stable, remove Qt3 depending versions |
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> > * if Qt4 depending version in testing, mark stable, then remove older |
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> > versions * if no Qt4 version in tree, get Qt4 version in testing by |
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> > 2010-01-21 and stable by 2010-02-21 |
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> > * if no Qt4 version exists, check for equivalent/replacement packages, |
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> > and mask by 2010-02-21 |
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> > |
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> > Note: for packages that currently have no version marked stable, the |
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> > references to stabling Qt4 versions obviously don't apply. |
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> |
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> > 1: |
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> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_d851e05567d538b662f34de8 |
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> dfdb7316.xml |
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> |
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> > Cheers, |
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> |
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> QUCS is a qt3 only application. |
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> This is a fantastic electrical simulation package and is in active |
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> developement. |
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> There is a svn branch for the qt4 port but it isn't there yet. |
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> Removal of qt3 will break this app that is in the main tree |
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> If the policy is to then remove this app (which would be a very big shame |
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> since it will mean - based upon past experience - hard to get back in) |
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> could a hard-mask live ebuild for the svn/nightly be made until the next |
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> qucs is released |
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It could be moved to kde-sunset overlay where legacy KDE3 stuff (like KDE |
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3.5.10 itself) is being kept and maintained by the community. |
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regards |
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MM |
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