On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:41:56 +0100
Andreas Sturmlechner <[email protected]> wrote:

> # Andreas Sturmlechner <[email protected]> (03 Dec 2017)
> # Dead upstreams, depending on dead qt3support/qt4.
> # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #631788
> ...
> games-kids/crayon-physics

This is a commercial game that I have played in the past and still have
installed. I think you have to take special consideration over packages
for things that people have paid money for. You can't so easily say
"Oh just play another game then." You also can't expect "upstream" to
address the issue. We have sometimes left vulnerable commercial games
masked in the tree but in this case, the offender is the Qt4
dependency. I'm guessing that we won't be leaving Qt4 masked in the
tree so I'm not sure what to suggest. The game does bundle some
libraries but Qt4 isn't one of them, not that that would be a great
idea anyway.

I wondered if this would also affect Steam but Qt isn't in the
Ubuntu-based runtime so any game using it would need to bundle it with
the game itself. I haven't come across any other commercial games using
Qt but this proves that there is at least one.

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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