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Bug#903853: transition: removal of nepomuk support from src:kde4libs



In data lunedì 30 luglio 2018 07:25:08 CEST, Pino Toscano ha scritto:
> In data sabato 28 luglio 2018 10:16:15 CEST, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ha scritto:
> > 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.
> 
> Uploaded two days ago, and built everywhere now.  Can you please
> schedule the binNMUs for kpartplugins?

Anyone in release-team: considering Emilio is not around this week, can
you please schedule this binNMU?

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Pino Toscano

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