[Python-modules-team] Removal of python-qt3?

[Bernd Zeimetz]

hi,

thanks for analyzing the situation.

> I'm considering how feasible is removing Qt3 from wheezy. Even if
> we freeze soon, removing packages is never a problem :-)
> 
> One of the big parts of the effort would be removing python-qt3, there are
> only 6 packages in the archive currently using python-qt3:
> 
> * Package: kodos (#604359) It seems dead upstream.
> 
> * Package: luma (#604358) Upstream started the Qt4 migration
> but seems dead.
> 
> * Package: mnemosyne (#604362)
> 
> * Package: museek+ (604606)
> 
> * Package: pyqonsole (#604371). It seems dead upstream

No idea about the packages lsited above, but...

> * Package: matplotlib (No bug reported) It build-depends on python-qt-dev to add 
> python-qt3 support. So it only needs dropping Qt3 support.

the maintainers are pretty active, so I guess that would be an easy task.

> (The maintainers of all those packages have been bcc'ed, please answer to 
> debian-python@ if you have something to say).
> 
> Is it worth keeping python-qt3 and therefore Qt3 (that does not have any 
> maintainer) in Debian only for those apps? Are the python-qt3 maintainers willing 
> to continue with the python-qt3 maintenance wrt upstream work?

I think python-qt3 should be removed, so raising the severity of the mentioned
bugs (again?) would be a good start.

Cheers,

Bernd


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