[gentoo-dev] Last rites: Dead Qt4-based games-*/

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: Dead Qt4-based games-*/

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

# Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (03 Dec 2017)
# Dead upstreams, depending on dead qt3support/qt4.
# Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #631788
games-board/capicity
games-board/kcheckers
games-board/qgo
games-board/holdingnuts
games-board/qcheckers
games-emulation/virtualjaguar
games-emulation/dboxfe
games-kids/cubetest
games-kids/crayon-physics
games-misc/ggencoder
games-misc/qlife
games-puzzle/bubble-chains
games-puzzle/jag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: Dead Qt4-based games-*/

[James Le Cuirot]

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On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:41:56 +0100
Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (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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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: Dead Qt4-based games-*/

[Michał Górny]

W dniu nie, 03.12.2017 o godzinie 20∶54 +0000, użytkownik James Le
Cuirot napisał:
> On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:41:56 +0100
> Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (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.
> 

Short answer: overlay.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: Dead Qt4-based games-*/

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

On Sonntag, 3. Dezember 2017 23:04:54 CEST Michał Górny wrote:
> W dniu nie, 03.12.2017 o godzinie 20∶54 +0000, użytkownik James Le
> Cuirot napisał:
> > On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:41:56 +0100
> > Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (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.
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> Short answer: overlay.

games-kids/crayon-physics was moved to kde-sunset.git.