Bug#903853: transition: removal of nepomuk support from src:kde4libs
Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 15/07/18 22:33, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to remove the support for Nepomuk in src:kde4libs.
>
> Since Nepomuk has been deprecated, and already unused in Debian for
> quite some time, this allows us to drop src:soprano &
> src:shared-desktop-ontologies. The result is the drop of 3 library
> packages from src:kde4libs: libnepomuk4, libnepomukquery4a, and
> libnepomukutils4.
>
> The reason of this transition is that libnepomuk was so far listed as
> public library dependency for the kde4 versions of kio (libkio5), and
> kparts (libkparts4), resulting in overlinking. Fortunately, almost all
> the packages either already link in as-needed more, or switched to KDE
> Frameworks 5. The only exception is src:kpartsplugin.
>
> Hence, the plan is the following:
> 1) upload src:kde4libs without Nepomuk support
> 2) binNMU src:kpartsplugin
>
> I verified that src:kpartsplugin builds fine even without Nepomuk
> libraries, effectively not linking against them anymore. I also did
> a rebuild of all the other sources still using kdelibs 4.x, and there
> were no changes in their build.
>
> PS: since I uploaded kde4libs 4:4.14.38-1 yesterday, I'd wait for it to
> migrate to testing, first.
Please go ahead.
Cheers,
Emilio
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