[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

Fri Mar 25 20:00:19 CET 2011

Op vrijdag 25 maart 2011 10:39:28 schreef Tux99:
+> Quote: xi wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 10:32
+> 
+> > As always, please don't drop too fast the packages that you find
+> > useless. There are still some users like me who may use QT3.
+> > 
+> > I still use some "not so common" applications (eg tools for electronic)
+> > 
+> > which needs QT3 and it is always much more convenient to simply do a
+> > "urpmi libqt3-devel" than downloading and compiling qt3 ... especially
+> > 
+> > if libqt3 is already included in Mageia !
+> 
+> Exactly my point, thanks Xavier.
+> 
+> This is about not restricting other people's freedoms.
+
+iirc, it was mentioned somewhere that qt3 (without devel) was only submitted 
+to satisfy the lsb requirements (which are ridiculously unrealisticly outdated 
+imho, but there is talk of upgrading).
+
+I read this as: 'we just put it there, but noone even tested it to see if it's 
+actually working', it might as well have been an empty package or not there.
+
+i think that during this huge (boring) thread to me, this has been 
+misunderstood a few times.
+
+as some people mentioned:
+- make TDE build and run well locally (because TDE obviously is what you want, 
+and it does give a good test-run on qt3 on almost all parts)
+- co-install it with KDE4 and make it both run very well
+- discuss with current maintainers/packagers/your mentor of qt3 how to 
+support/maintain this (i suspect there is no real maintainer, but check the 
+commit logs who worked on it).
+- after all these steps (quite a bit of work), start committing your stuff and 
+submitting to core/testing
+- organize a few testers to test it out
+- move to core/release
+
+I don't think anyone disagrees with these steps, if they do, you could have 
+packaging leaders/council decide on this.
+(IMHO, it would be nice to test this procedure of council decisions, i would 
+love to see this happening)
+
+I suspect due to the freeze that this will hit cauldron after mageia release 1
+
+good luck
+