Hi, On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 05:47:10PM +0100, Eckhart Wörner wrote: > Package: celestia-kde > Severity: wishlist > User: [email protected] > Usertags: qt3libs-removal kde3libs-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. > > 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
In the case of celestia, it provides a KDE 3 frontend that could be dropped. We are trying to remove kdelibs3 soon from the archive, could you look at this soon please? Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
