On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 01:47:20AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi Moritz,
>
> Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > Attached is a quick-and-dirty patch to drop the amora-applet binary
> > package, qt4 will soon be removed from unstable.
>
> Thanks for the effort, but in the meanwhile I'm rather think we should
> remove amora completely from Debian, at least for now.
>
> Upstream (Cc'ed) tried to migrate to Qt5 about two years ago.
> Compiling and running with Qt5 was not the big issue, but getting
> Bluetooh working again — and hence core functionality:
> https://github.com/amora/amora/issues/86#issuecomment-432001824
>
> Another point is that the main client platform are Nokia Symbian
> phones — which are nearly nowhere in use anymore. I still do have such
> a phone, but for years the only reason to power it on was to test
> amora before uploading. Haven't powered it on since the last upload...
>
> There's IIRC code for a Qt client (Qt 4 I assume, maybe even older)
> which AFAIK never was published in any app store though. If I remember
> correctly I once got it running on my OpenMoko (i.e. ages ago). Or was
> it on the Nokia N900? Can't remeber anymore...
>
> We still can bring it back when the Qt5 port is working properly and
> there's a client for modern mobile phones (even if only for less
> popular OS like KaiOS/GerdaOS or SailfishOS).
Sounds good, removing it entirely is fair enough. Are you filing an RM
bug? Otherwise I can do it as well.
Cheers,
Moritz
