Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> schrieb:
>> Amarok was removed as it required the obsolete Qt 4 library. Now that
>> upstream has finally ported it to Qt5, it could be reintroduced to
>> Debian.
>
> That's an interesting way of presenting the situation. Amarok was
> removed because we aggressively removed Qt4, dropping packages that were
> still using it, rather than dropping it once it was no longer in use,
> which would be the more traditional approach.

We didn't "aggressively remove" it; Qt4 was already a long time EOLed when
we started to prune reverse deps. The same process which also happens/
happened for many other outdated and security relavant libs, think OpenSSL 1.0.

Talk is cheap if you're not the one who has to deal with the consequences
(like backporting security fixes to an unsupported release)

Cheers,
        Moritz