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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:48:37
Message-Id: 4B3C9E41.2050408@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy by Richard Freeman
1 On 12/31/2009 02:39 PM, Richard Freeman wrote:
2 > On 12/30/2009 12:14 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
3 >> 2010-01-21:
4 >>
5 >> * Qt team meeting: discuss actions to be taken regarding remaining
6 >> pkgs that use qt:3
7 >>
8 >> 2010-02-21:
9 >>
10 >> * mask qt:3 and depending ebuilds, pending removal
11 >
12 > 30 days isn't a long time. How about filing bugs against anything that
13 > currently uses qt3 right away, so that maintainers have an extra three
14 > weeks to resolve these issues? Granted, one would hope they've been
15 > paying attention.
16 >
17 > As a random example, the current stable version of mythtv uses qt3, but
18 > I don't see any open bugs about that (that package is probably an easy
19 > fix as the newer versions use qt3support, and that version is already
20 > stable upstream).
21
22 "Stable" MythTV has more issues than just Qt3, as the current stable
23 doesn't compile anymore, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280303
24 which is about to get masked tomorrow with kdelibs-3...
25
26 Just saying...

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o>