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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:57:27
Message-Id: e117dbb90912310657r7250756bqb0bdcd75766d249e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy by Richard Freeman
1 2009/12/31 Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o>:
2 > 30 days isn't a long time.  How about filing bugs against anything that
3 > currently uses qt3 right away, so that maintainers have an extra three weeks
4 > to resolve these issues?  Granted, one would hope they've been paying
5 > attention.
6
7 We've already announced that 5 months ago and asked for any issues to
8 be brought to our attention. If things haven't improved by now, it is
9 doubtful they will with a few months extra time. Our current timeline
10 gives maintainers another seven weeks to resolve issues, before
11 x11-libs/qt:3 will be package.masked.
12
13 > Usually the approach in these situations is to have a big tracker bug for
14 > qt3 removal and a million blocker bugs against individual packages.
15
16 There is a tracker bug, I should have mentioned it in the original mail:
17 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283429
18
19 Please file bugs blocking the tracker for any package you think is
20 important and doesn't have a Qt4 version or replacement yet. If there
21 is a Qt4 version, but not yet stable, then stable requests should be
22 filed, which also block the tracker. The Qt team will also go through
23 the tree and file bugs for all remaining packages within the next
24 couple of weeks.
25
26 > Plus, you might decide that one or two of the blockers really are
27 > critical, and decide to work with those maintainers more closely or escalate
28 > the issue.
29
30 Sure. As I said in the original mail: "We are dedicated to do anything
31 we reasonably can to make sure that Qt4 versions or equivalents of the
32 remaining Qt3 packages in the portage tree are available." I believe
33 we can work things out in the next seven weeks, and otherwise we could
34 reconsider the timeline. But we need short-term goals, otherwise it
35 will take forever to get things done.
36
37 Cheers,
38 --
39 Ben de Groot
40 Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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