Hi, As the Gentoo Qt team has announced six months ago, Qt3 is about to be masked now (see bug 283429). We sent another mail with a timeline at the end of December. Most of the issues surrounding the mask and removal of Qt3 have been solved. But we see ourselves confronted with one remaining issue: MythTV. Its current stable version uses Qt3, but there is a Qt4 version in testing. In all this time the MythTV maintainers have not taken any action. On my initiative a stable candidate was appointed and the result is in bug 299222. But the upgrade procedure is non-trivial, possibly leading to irreparable database corruption. As several users have warned, this upgrade needs a news item and upgrade instructions. But the named maintainer has indicated that he has no time to write these ( see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299222#c15 ).
As just masking stable MythTV, along the other remaining Qt3 ebuilds in the tree, would give users the false impression they could relatively safely upgrade to the ~arch version, the Qt team believes this would be the improper way to proceed. We have decided to slightly postpone the mask of Qt3, in order to give the MythTV team or the QA team the opportunity to produce a news item about this issue. Seeing that the MythTV team has not addressed this issue during the past months, we strongly urge the QA team to step in. If no action is taken soon, we see no other way than to protect the users by masking the complete mythtv package. We hope this won't be necessary. Regards, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________
