On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:05:14PM +0000, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > It would be good to move Qt 3 from main to universe, it's unmaintained > upstream, is a duplication of another library (Qt 4) and is not > actively used by anything much.
> Reverse Build Depends: > Package: avahi Qt 3 bindings can be dropped > Package: cppunit Qt 3 GUI can be dropped > Package: djvulibre Qt 3 GUI can be dropped > Package: qt-x11-free > Package: qwt Qt 3 widgets can be dropped > Package: scribus can be moved to universe > Package: unixodbc Qt 3 bindings can be droped This isn't just bindings; the main Qt3 output on this package are the GUI ODBC management tools, for which we have no alternative. I need to check whether upstream has a Qt4-friendly version; if anyone happens to know already your input is welcome. (This is Debian bug #604387, btw) > This leaves one dependency, lsb-desktop. LSB upstream is pretty > inactive and doesn't seem to be updating to remove this obsolete > library. Do we care about about LSB to keep Qt 3 in main? The only thing in main that depends on lsb->lsb-desktop is 'kubuntu-full' - so you tell us? :-) Ironically, lsb-desktop also has a reverse-dependency of 'lsb-qt4'. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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