[gentoo-dev] Last-rites: media-video/2mandvd

[gentoo-dev] Last-rites: media-video/2mandvd

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

# Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (09 Jan 2018)
# Dead upstream, depends on dead Qt4.
# Bug #643976. Masked for removal in 30 days.
media-video/2mandvd

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last-rites: media-video/2mandvd

[Duncan]

Andreas Sturmlechner posted on Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:49:27 +0100 as
excerpted:

> # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (09 Jan 2018)
> # Dead upstream, depends on dead Qt4.
> # Bug #643976. Masked for removal in 30 days.
> media-video/2mandvd

Is there a timetable for the "dead" qt4 removal yet?

Where will it go when removed, kde-sunset, graveyard, or...?

I'm asking because I still run the not in-tree any longer superkaramba, 
which wasn't ported to kde-frameworks5/qt5.  That's the only package 
(beyond a handful of kde4 packages and use-flag-triggers on other 
packages supporting it) I have still depending on qt4, so a timetable as 
to qt4 removal giving me some idea how long I have to find, install and 
configure an alternative, and an idea where I'll be looking for it if I 
don't get that conversion done by then, would be very useful.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last-rites: media-video/2mandvd

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

On Dienstag, 9. Jänner 2018 21:04:51 CET Duncan wrote:
> Is there a timetable for the "dead" qt4 removal yet?
> 
> Where will it go when removed, kde-sunset, graveyard, or...?

I don't think there is an established timetable for this, and I am certainly 
not the one to set it up, or decide where to put the dead ebuilds. We just go 
through qt4 revdeps, of which there are a lot, check the upstream status and 
weed out the hopeless cases first. At some point I guess Qt4 will be broken/
blocking stabilisation of deps that it simply has to go, together with 
whatever is still left depending on it. kdelibs4 will be kicked much sooner 
than that, you may want to pay attention to that, and it will be moved to kde-
sunset. You can find various trackers around qt4-removal and revdep'ing 
libraries on b.g.o.

qt4-removal (list is not nearly complete): https://bugs.gentoo.org/631788

Regards,
Andreas