[Pkg-crosswire-devel] kio-sword and pkg-crosswire group maintenance

[Luke Plant]

Jonathan wrote:
> Daniel Glassey wrote:
> > I was wondering if you would like to maintain kio-sword in (or
> > pass on maintainence of packaging to) the new pkg-crosswire
> > packaging group?
> >
> > http://lukeplant.me.uk/kio-sword/
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=kio-sword
> >
> > Do you know why it isn't in intrepid and jaunty?
>
> Per the info at
>
>    http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/sync-blacklist.txt
>
> kio-sword needs KDE3, which is not in Intrepid or Jaunty.  Once
> upstream updates it to use KDE4, we could look at packaging it. 
> Without that, I don't see much chance of getting it into Ubuntu.

I'm afraid I don't even use kio-sword anymore, and as I'm the sole 
author and contributor, that probably means it will never get updated 
to KDE4. (I could say "when I get time", but it is currently so far 
down the priority list, that is equivalent to "never").  If someone 
steps up with patches etc, fine.

In terms of technical needs, I think it should work fine in Konqueror 
in KDE4, it doesn't depend on any KDE3 only technologies.  It needs 
updating to use Qt 4 though, and the old autotools build scripts 
(generated by KDE3 dev tools) need replacing with cmake or something.  
There may be some other smallish changes due to KDE API changes, I 
don't know.

All of the above is too much work for me, given the fact that I don't 
use it anymore. No-one has offered me any patches, so I don't think 
there is likely to be anyone willing to take over the project.  If 
there is, I will happily hand over commit bits for the Subversion 
repository etc.

Regards,

Luke

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