In data giovedì 7 dicembre 2017 09:56:25 CET, Adrian Bunk ha scritto: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:30:08AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > > Control: severity -1 important > > Control: tag -1 - patch > > > > In data mercoledì 6 dicembre 2017 19:33:10 CET, Adrian Bunk ha scritto: > > > Package: dolphin4 > > > Version: 4:16.08.3-1 > > > Severity: serious > > > Tags: patch buster sid > > > > > > dolphin4 is still linked with libplasma3, > > > which has to be removed for the qtwebkit removal. > > > > NACK. > > > > dolphin4 (which uses kdelibs4) is shipped only to provide file browsing > > capabilities to konqueror (which uses kdelibs4). In recent versions of > > KDE Applications kde-baseapps does not exist anymore, replaced by split > > tarballs (konqueror, kfind, keditbookmarks, kdialog). Only konqueror > > is available in experimental, the others are waiting in NEW. Once all > > are available, they will replace kde-baseapps in unstable (in a > > coordinated upload with kde-l10n, since they ship translations), and > > thus dolphin4 will be removed. > > > > To be honest, it would be much easier if you could *wait* for the > > completion of Applications 17.08 in unstable/testing, so there will be > > few more kdelibs4-using sources either dropped (like dolphin4) or > > ported to Frameworks. > > Then kde-baseapps is the only big blocker for the qtwebkit > removal from testing. > > And then there are 3 options for the libkonq-using packages > currently in testing (kdiff3/komparator/kile[1]): > 1. they get updated to Qt5 and new konqueror > 2. remove their usage of libkonq if that's possible > 3. get them out of testing - kdiff3 has an optional dependency, so (2) - komparator seems to have a mandatory dependency, so I'm afraid that it will be (3) (dead upstream, apparently) - kile requires okular, so it will be updated (most probably to a devel version, sigh) together with okular (which is part of the updates to Applications 17.08); once done that, konsole4 will be RMed As you can see, I already know what are the options here. > Getting rid of the dolphin4 -> libplasma3 dependency decouples the > qtwebkit removal from kde-baseapps, removing the urgency from > getting rid of kde-baseapps. Urgency which is unnecessary at this point (also because of ftp-masters being the usual blocker in the Debian work), and bugs like this actually adds *more* work (such as patching dead sources) than anything else. Please stop this pushing attitude, it simply does not help, especially when not having the full picture of KDE packages. Thanks. -- Pino Toscano
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