[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#604341: Preparations for the removal of the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries
Eckhart Wörner
ewoerner at kde.org
Sun Nov 21 19:22:35 UTC 2010
Source: avahi
Severity: wishlist
User: debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qt3libs-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
Documentation on how to port to KDE4 can be found at:
http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Development/Tutorials/KDE4_Porting_Guide
Documentation on how to port to Qt4 can be found at:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/porting4.html
For any questions and issues, do not hesitate to contact the Debian Qt/KDE
team at debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org
Eckhart
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