On Sunday 21 November 2010 19:45:36 Eckhart Wörner wrote: > 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
FTR: There is a KDE4 port of LabPlot. It is however not ready to be packaged yet (it failed to build from source the last time I tried to build it and also the last release of an alpha version of this port was more than two years ago). Also the LabPlot and SciDAVis projects (which uses Qt4 and is already in Debian) are currently "merging" their codebase [1]. Therefore it is unclear whether LabPlot and SciDAVis will be built from the same Debian source package once the merge is complete. I recommend to remove LabPlot after the release of Squeeze and use SciDAVis instead. LabPlot should be reintroduced as soon as there is a working KDE4 port of it. - Frank [1] http://dot.kde.org/2009/10/16/labplot-and-scidavis-collaborate-future- free-scientific-plotting
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