Re: phonon-backend-gstreamer-common has been kept back

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Miguel A. Vallejo - 13.11.19, 00:21:04 CET:
> Well, removed Kopete, some QT4 libs and KDE broke. Fortunately I was
> able to restore it with some few apt-get install/remove
> 
> Everything seems to work now. I didn't realize the problem was QT4.

In case you need kopete, you can try to install the version from 
experimental. Here it is co-installable with the latest phonon in Debian 
Sid as of today.

But interestingly enough, kopete only appears to be available in 
experimental anyway:

% LANG=en apt policy kopete
kopete:
  Installed: 4:18.08.3-1
  Candidate: 4:18.08.3-1
  Version table:
 *** 4:18.08.3-1 200
        200 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Currently I do not really have an idea where KDE project is heading with 
instant messaging. KDE Telepathy does not appear to receive any 
development anymore. And as for Kopete… I do not hear much as well. At 
the same time kaidan is not yet ready.

But regarding Jabber clients it is a mess on Linux anyway, if you ask 
me.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin