Bug#604264: Creox in Debian, was: Bug#604264: Preparations for the removal of the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries

[Jozef Kosoru]

Hi All,

Thank you for this notification. As you have noticed already, I don't
maintain creox package for some years already. If anyone wishes to port
it to Qt4 then I will (obviously) appreciate it. However I'm not going
to do it myself due to insufficient time I can dedicate to open-source
programming.

Best regards,
Jozef

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:42:33 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
> Hi Jozef,
> 
> Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a member of the pkg-multimedia
> team, a bunch of folks that, among others, maintain your package 'creox'
> in Debian. In Debian the package maintainers for QT and KDE have
> scheduled the removal from QT3 and KDE3 packages, which creox currently
> depends on.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 21:03:35 (CET), Ana Guerrero wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 05:47:53PM +0100, Eckhart Wörner wrote:
> >> Package: creox
> >> Severity: wishlist
> >> User: debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org
> >> Usertags: qt3libs-removal kde3libs-removal
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Dear maintainer,
> >> 
> >> The Debian Qt/KDE team is planning to remove the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries from 
> >> Debian shortly after the Squeeze release. The transition phase to KDE4 and Qt4 
> >> will finish since both KDE and Nokia upstream don't maintain the old versions 
> >> of those libraries anymore.
> >> 
> >> In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on 
> >> the KDE3/Qt3 libraries have to either get ported to KDE4/Qt4 or eventually get 
> >> removed from the Debian repositories.
> >> 
> >> Therefore, please take the time and:
> >> - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a KDE4/Qt4 
> >> port of your application
> >> - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there are 
> >> suitable alternatives for your users
> >> - if there is a KDE4/Qt4 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it
> >> - if both the KDE3/Qt3 and the KDE4/Qt4 version already coexist in the Debian 
> >> archives, consider removing the KDE3/Qt3 version
> >>
> >
> > Dear multimedia maintainers,
> > what is the status of this? The removal of kdelibs4c2a is imminent now. Since
> > there is not a kde4 port, could you please file for removal?  Interested users
> > can always fetch the package from Squeeze.
> 
> From looking at the upstream homepage http://zyzstar.kosoru.com/?creox,
> I don't see any indication about efforts to port to qt4/kde4. This is
> unfortunate as it means that we have to request the removal of creox
> from unstable.
> 
> If anyone can, please provide input so that we don't need to remove
> creox from Debian.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gruesse/greetings,
> Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
-- 
Jozef Kosoru
http://zyzstar.kosoru.com