On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 08:06:56PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 07:32:59PM +0100, Eckhart Wörner wrote:
> > Source: kpicosim
> > Severity: wishlist
> > User: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: qt3libs-removal kde3libs-removal
> > 
> > 
> > Dear maintainer,
> > 
> > The Debian Qt/KDE team is planning to remove the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries 
> > from 
> > Debian shortly after the Squeeze release. The transition phase to KDE4 and 
> > Qt4 
> > will finish since both KDE and Nokia upstream don't maintain the old 
> > versions 
> > of those libraries anymore.
> > 
> > In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending 
> > on 
> > the KDE3/Qt3 libraries have to either get ported to KDE4/Qt4 or eventually 
> > get 
> > removed from the Debian repositories.
> > 
> > Therefore, please take the time and:
> > - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a KDE4/Qt4 
> > port of your application
> > - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there 
> > are 
> > suitable alternatives for your users
> > - if there is a KDE4/Qt4 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging 
> > it
> > - if both the KDE3/Qt3 and the KDE4/Qt4 version already coexist in the 
> > Debian 
> > archives, consider removing the KDE3/Qt3 version
> 
> Hi Adrian,
> what is the status of this? The removal of kdelibs from KDE 3 is inminent.
> Looks like there is not a KDE 4 version, so the package needs to be removed,
> users always can fetch it from Squeeze if they need it.
>
>

I am asking for the removal of kde3libs tomorrow, so if you do not mind I am 
filing the removal of kpicosim also.

Ana



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