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September 2018

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[arch-dev-public] away for some time over the next month
by Eli Schwartz 09 Sep '18

09 Sep '18

It is High Holiday season, so I will be away at a minimum, tomorrow and Tuesday, then Wednesday the 19th and the week after that. (Plus, you know, general hecticness.) I'll be irregularly available until October 3rd, in other words. All the best. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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[arch-dev-public] Dropping KDE4 libs
by Antonio Rojas 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

I think it's time to drop the KDE4 libraries. They were EOL months ago and most stuff that isn't yet ported to KF5 is dead upstream. This would allow dropping a number of qt4 libraries and reduce the qt4 reverse dependencies (qt4 has been EOL for 3 years now). Affected packages are: - recorditnow (there are many alternatives available) - ligthdm-kde-greeter (dead upstream, no signs of KF5 porting) - krecipes (dead upstream, no signs of KF5 porting) - kdiff3 (has been ported to KF5 for a while, just needs a release. Could be updated to a snapshot) - pidgin-kwallet (uses kwallet dbus API, so should work with the KF5 version without any modification) - libreoffice-still (would lose the KDE4 VCL, which is quite buggy anyway. LO-fresh has a new VCL that uses KF5 file dialog) - amarok: it has a WIP KF5 port, but it's not quite ready and development is stalled. IMO we should let it rest in peace - I can keep a KF5 snapshot in kde-unstable for a while but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere any time soon at the current development pace. There are a few alternatives in the repos. Comments?

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