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
