Re: Bug#604360: Preparations for the removal of the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries
On 02/23/2012 09:31 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Given that LSB has deprecated the use of Qt3 libraries since its 3.2
> version, I propose to demote the relationship on libqt3-mt from Depends
> to Recommends.
>
> This would mean that Qt3 would still be installed by lsb-desktop in
> default installations (where apt recommends are enabled) but at the same
> time make the LSB support in Debian future-proof and allow seamless
> removal of Qt3 when its time will have come.
>
> Opinions ?
I would definitely not go that far, at least not yet. Qt 3 is
deprecated, yes, but definitely still required for full LSB support.
LSB 5.0 (currently in development) will drop Qt 3. At that point, the
dependency can be dropped entirely.
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