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Fwd: Re: Bug#897667: qt4-x11: Please add support for new architecture "riscv64"



Removing the bug also makes it not show up on debian-qt-kde ML, which is an 
unintended consequences, thus forwarding it there.

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Subject: Re: Bug#897667: qt4-x11: Please add support for new architecture 
"riscv64"
Date: zaterdag 5 mei 2018, 00:18:10 CEST
From: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
To: Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>, Lisandro 
Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>
CC: Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <mafm@debian.org>

[I removed the bug from the To/CC list as I think it isn't relevant for that 
bug, but more general for qt4 removal]

On vrijdag 4 mei 2018 18:45:08 CEST Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> - phonon direclty depends on libqt4-dev too, so it needs to go.

I recently went on a trip to remove all qt4 dependencies of phonon from my Sid 
system and I succeeded in doing so ... but it wasn't exactly straight forward.
If you don't take special actions, it'll default to installing the qt4 version 
of phonon (at least partially).

This seems to be the main culprit:
$ aptitude why phonon-backend
i   desktop-base Suggests gnome | kde-standard | xfce4 | wmaker    
p   kde-standard Depends  kopete (>= 4:17.08.3)                    
p   kopete       Depends  phonon                                   
p   phonon       Depends  phonon-backend-gstreamer | phonon-backend

So I was able to succeed because I don't use kde-standard, but kde-plasma-
desktop.
Also, the most logically/naturally named phonon packages (phonon-backend-X) 
install the qt4 version of it. If you know what you're doing and know you 
don't want qt4, then you'll install phonon4qt5-backend-X package(s), but my 
guess is that it requires specific action to do the 'right' thing.

There is now in experimental a version of kopete which no longer depends on 
kde4/qt4 stuff.  If it's ready to be uploaded to sid, I'd suggest to then 
update kde-standard to depend on that version asap.

(My uninformed and unqualified opinion is that you should start removing qt4 
*really* soon from the archives or it'll end up again in Buster)

My 0.02
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