Control: tags -1 confirmed On 15/07/18 22:33, Pino Toscano wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: transition > > Hi, > > I'd like to remove the support for Nepomuk in src:kde4libs. > > Since Nepomuk has been deprecated, and already unused in Debian for > quite some time, this allows us to drop src:soprano & > src:shared-desktop-ontologies. The result is the drop of 3 library > packages from src:kde4libs: libnepomuk4, libnepomukquery4a, and > libnepomukutils4. > > The reason of this transition is that libnepomuk was so far listed as > public library dependency for the kde4 versions of kio (libkio5), and > kparts (libkparts4), resulting in overlinking. Fortunately, almost all > the packages either already link in as-needed more, or switched to KDE > Frameworks 5. The only exception is src:kpartsplugin. > > Hence, the plan is the following: > 1) upload src:kde4libs without Nepomuk support > 2) binNMU src:kpartsplugin > > I verified that src:kpartsplugin builds fine even without Nepomuk > libraries, effectively not linking against them anymore. I also did > a rebuild of all the other sources still using kdelibs 4.x, and there > were no changes in their build. > > PS: since I uploaded kde4libs 4:4.14.38-1 yesterday, I'd wait for it to > migrate to testing, first.
Please go ahead. Cheers, Emilio
