[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#604341: Bug#604341: Preparations for the removal of the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries

[Michael Biebl]

block 604341 by 597118
thanks


On 21.11.2010 20:22, Eckhart Wörner wrote:
> 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.

Please see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597118

as soon as kdelibs has been recompiled without zeroconf support or is dropped
altogether the avahi Qt3 bindings will be removed.

So it is the KDE3/Qt3 team who has to take action first.

Cheers,
Michael

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