On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Alexander Rødseth <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > > KDE3 and Gtk1 are pretty old by now. Upstream development has stopped > and the few pages that still needs the "kdelibs3" or "gtk" package > seems to be of less importance. > > The topic was discussed briefly on IRC and there were only positive > comments about making this move. > > One of the many arguments for moving them is that when upstream > development stops, we don't want to take on the responsibility of > fixing security problems with kde3/gtk1. > > So, can we move kdelibs3 and gtk from [extra] to either [community] or AUR? > > > Here are the packages that depends on kdelibs3 (maintained by Eric > Bélanger), together with the name of the current maintainer(s): > > kleansweep, Sergej Pupykin > kovpn, Sergej Pupykin > ksniffer, Sergej Pupykin > ktechlab, Sergej Pupykin > pwmanager, Sergej Pupykin > qalculate-kde, Eric Bélanger > tork, Felix Yan > > I prefer the GUI of qalculate-kde but I could live with qalculate-gtk. I use this not very often. Therefore I wouldn't mind removing kdelibs3 from the repos. We might also remove qt3 as well. > Here are the packages that depends on gtk (maintained by Eric Bélanger): > > dfm, Sergej Pupykin > gdk-pixbuf, Sergej Pupykin > imlib, Eric Bélanger > kiwi, Federico Cinelli > lib32-gtk, Pierre Schmitz > madman, Sergej Pupykin > manedit, Giovanni Scafora > xmms, Eric Bélanger > libdv (optional+make), Jan de Groot > twin (optional), Sergej Pupykin > librcc (make), Sergej Pupykin > > > The only two packages I think might be worth extra concern here is: > > * imlib: needed by dfm, fvwm (should be possible to compile without > depending on imlib), Last time I check, it wasn't possible. As fvwm is the WM I use (I believe it has also decent usage statistics), I would like to keep them in the repos. So, in conclusion: 0 for removing kdelibs3 -1 for removing gtk1 kuickshow and tksystray. > > * libdv: used by a lot of packages. gtk is listed as both optional and > a make dependency. I assume this means that it can be compiled without > Gtk1. > > > Which packages should be moved to [community] or AUR as a result of > kdelibs3 and gtk being moved, is up for discussion. > > > I think the timing is right for this and there seems to be consensus > that moving them is a good idea. > > > -- > Best regards, > Alexander Rødseth > xyproto / TU >
