Bug#905697: kdepimlibs: don't depend on libical
On 14/02/2019 09:50, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 at 22:46:21 +0100, Sandro Knauß wrote:
>> Keep in mind, that kdepimlibs is an old grufted lib set that we also would
>> like to kill.
>
> Perhaps you could ask the ftp team to override its Section to oldlibs
> to indicate this?
>
>> But we also have other packages depending on it like:
>> * basket
>> * kopete (it has a QT5 version in experimental, but this is suitable as
>> replacement yet).
>> and other that may can be killed.
>
> FYI, here is the size of the problem:
>
> smcv@coccia ~ % dak rm -R -n -s testing kdepimlibs libical
> ...
> Checking reverse dependencies...
> # Broken Depends:
> kde-runtime: kde-runtime
> kopete: kopete
> libkopete4
> syncevolution: syncevolution-libs-kde
>
> # Broken Build-Depends:
> basket: kdepimlibs5-dev (>= 4:4.4.3)
> kde-runtime: kdepimlibs5-dev
> kopete: kdepimlibs5-dev
> syncevolution: kdepimlibs5-dev
kde-runtime has dozens of rdeps, so unless its dep on kdepimlibs can be broken
somehow, this would be much harder to solve for buster.
Emilio
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