Bug#903853: transition: removal of nepomuk support from src:kde4libs
Pino Toscano:
> 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,
>
Hi Pino,
Scheduled.
Thanks for the reminder,
~Niels
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