On Thursday 31 of December 2009 14:43:54 Mark Bateman wrote:
> Ben de Groot <yngwin <at> gentoo.org> writes:
> > As announced 5 months ago[1], Gentoo's Qt team now officially
> > deprecates usage of x11-libs/qt:3 and packages depending on this
> > version of Qt.
> > 
> > 
> > # Policy for remaining ebuilds depending on qt:3 #
> > 
> > * if Qt3 optional, remove this option
> > * if Qt4 depending version stable, remove Qt3 depending versions
> > * if Qt4 depending version in testing, mark stable, then remove older
> > versions * if no Qt4 version in tree, get Qt4 version in testing by
> > 2010-01-21 and stable by 2010-02-21
> > * if no Qt4 version exists, check for equivalent/replacement packages,
> > and mask by 2010-02-21
> > 
> > Note: for packages that currently have no version marked stable, the
> > references to stabling Qt4 versions obviously don't apply.
> 
> > 1:
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_d851e05567d538b662f34de8
> dfdb7316.xml
> 
> > Cheers,
> 
> QUCS is a qt3 only application.
> This is a fantastic electrical simulation package and is in active
> developement.
> 
> There is a svn branch for the qt4 port but it isn't there yet.
> Removal of qt3 will break this app that is in the main tree
> 
> If the policy is to then remove this app (which would be a very big shame
> since it will mean - based upon past experience - hard to get back in)
> could a hard-mask live ebuild for the svn/nightly be made until the next
> qucs is released

It could be moved to kde-sunset overlay where legacy KDE3 stuff (like KDE 
3.5.10 itself) is being kept and maintained by the community.

-- 
regards
MM

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