Re: Clarification regarding Qt 4 removal (and #875036 in particular)
Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> writes:
> On September 5, 2019 7:36:01 AM UTC, Gard Spreemann <gspr@nonempty.org> wrote:
>>Can someone help clarify why the Qt 4 removal causes all of
>>src:libqglviewer to be marked for removal? Surely its Qt 5 binaries
>>could stay?
>
> All binaries from a source package are removed as a set, so if the Qt4
> packages are RC buggy, they all have to go.
Ah, of course, that makes sense. Thanks.
>>Is there any course of action I should take as maintainer of gudhi? I
>>tried contacting the maintainer of libqglviewer a few weeks ago, but
>>got
>>no reply.
>
> You might investigate if there are remaining rdepends for the Qt4
> packages and if not, an NMU to drop them might be in order if you
> continue not to hear from the maintainer.
I see. The problem with that is I'm only a DM with uploading rights for
a few packages.
I'll try to contact the last uploader as well.
Best,
Gard
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