On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:53:54AM -0400, Christopher Martin wrote: > Hello, > > I had assumed that the lack of QT updates was a conscious choice by the > KDE maintainers to hold off on uploading QT 3.3. But your message implies > that this isn't really the case. > As far as I am concerned, KDE 3.2 is still not officially certified for running with Qt 3.3, is it? Anyway, Qt 3.3 should not go into Sarge, I think. > Since Martin Loschwitz has not kept the QT packages in a releasable state, > and indeed has (from what I've seen) not responded to requests for > information on why he has not updated and fixed bugs in the QT packages > (which are in need of both an update to 3.3.2 and fixes for many bugs, > including 2 RC) then perhaps it's time he relinquished those packages and > allowed someone with more time to take care of them. Technically, they > are already group maintained, so it shouldn't be a big deal to allow > others to come to the fore and make uploads (or pass them along to a DD > for uploading). Martin would still be welcome to contribute, of course. > The thing is -- I was quite satisfied with Qt as it was (and still is), it is just that circumstances have changed (e.g. the new xcursor stuff needs updating the package ...) I didn't retire from maintaining them; I would, however, love to see some people help me with it (specially since Ralf is on long-term-VAC at the moment ...) And no, Qt is not team-maintained and never has been. I never gave it to the Qt/KDE Maintainers group because it is not specific to KDE and some kind of distance between Qt and KDE should be kept up (so that other non-KDE-packages do not suffer because Qt becomes too much KDE specific). I think the solution this time is rather to find people to send me patches; not to mix up people in a maintainer group. As maintainer of the Qt packages, I hereby officially deny an NMU or something similar, i.e. an upload not done by me, until things get clear again. However, as already said -- I would love to see people help me; I am thinking of doing a Qt 3.2.x upload to fix at least one of the two outstanding release critical bugs. Additionally, re-enabling STL is something one might take into consideration. > Until this is formally accomplished, perhaps interested individiuals here > on debian-qt-kde could coordinate an upload. I myself don't have the > knowledge required to seriously fix such a complex package, but I'd be > willing to help in a non-central capacity. > > Cheers, > Christopher Martin > > On June 1, 2004 04:26, Chris Cheney wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:07:47AM +0300, Marius Žalinauskas wrote: > > > Tuesday 01 June 2004 03:43, Chris Cheney raš??: > > > > time. I imagine that 3.2.3 will be available to packagers by the > > > > time I get well enough to upload it. > > > > > > I wonder what Qt libs is it going to be linked? Current non-STL > > > v3.2.3? > > > > It will be linked to whatever is in sid at that time. So if someone is > > planning to change up Qt please do it soon. :) -- .''`. Martin Loschwitz Debian GNU/Linux developer : :' : madkiss@madkiss.org madkiss@debian.org `. `'` http://www.madkiss.org/ people.debian.org/~madkiss/ `- Use Debian GNU/Linux 3.0! See http://www.debian.org/
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