[arch-dev-public] Fwd: Move kdelibs3 to [community]

[Stéphane Gaudreault]

Le 13 juillet 2011 22:16:35 Andrea Scarpino a écrit :
> On Wednesday 13 July 2011 16:12:24 Eric Bélanger wrote:
> > I am maintaining qalculate-kde and would like to keep it in extra. I
> > prefer it over qalculate-gtk and it seems logical to keep
> > qalculate-kde along with qalculate-gtk and libqalculate in extra. Why
> > do you want to move kdelibs3 to community? If it's because it's
> > orphaned, I can adopt it and qt3 as well.  I suppose they are low
> > maintenance.
> 
> Yes, that's the problem: too low maintainance from upstream too. On big
> rebuilds (like libpng, gcc46) it needs to be patched; anyway usually I copy
> the patches from others distro.
> 
> Sergej offers to maintain it so I thought we can move it in [community], but
> if you are interested you can adopt qt3 and kdelibs3.

Maybe we could follow the kdelibs from Trinity [1]. I have no experience with 
this project, but they seems to be active. Or at least their svn repos [2] 
could be searched to find useful patches.

Stéphane

[1] http://www.trinitydesktop.org/
[2] http://websvn.kde.org/branches/trinity/kdelibs/