Remove KDE 4 desktop packages #22977
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A terse change log: Removed NowRemoved Outright
Already UpdatedRemoved KDE 4 versions.
To Be Removed Dec 2017Update Available
Development Version Available
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I should add, upstream will stop updating kdelibs4 around Dec 2017. At that time, I will simply remove any package which still depends on it. |
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### Removed Outright
- psi
it actually does have an unreleased qt5 version (and maybe it can even
be made independent of KDE)
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@7c6f434c Thank you for pointing this out! I was operating from information I got through the KDE packagers mailing list, which was apparently incorrect. |
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> it actually does have an unreleased qt5 version (and maybe it can even be made independent of KDE)
@7c6f434c Thank you for pointing this out! I was operating from information I got through the KDE packagers mailing list, which was apparently incorrect.
Right now I understand how to build it with Qt5 and QCA2-Qt5, but it
segfaults for some reason…
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In the "removed outright" section there are various applications with a Frameworks 5 version, at least:
PSI, semnotes are not by KDE. |
I am aware that these are not part of KDE. I was not able to find the Frameworks releases for these packages. I also didn't look hard, because they don't have maintainers in NixOS, anyway. If somebody wants to step forward and take the responsibility to be a maintainer, then I'll gladly put them back in. |
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs - Not useful without the KDE 4 desktop
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs - Not useful without the KDE 4 desktop
- Not useful without the KDE 4 desktop
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs - Not useful without the KDE 4 desktop
- Not useful without the KDE 4 desktop
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs - Not useful without the KDE 4 desktop
- No maintainer in Nixpkgs
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- No upstream activity
- No maintainer in Nixpkgs
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- No maintainer in Nixpkgs
- No maintainer in Nixpkgs
- No longer used
- Already updated to KDE 5 in Nixpkgs
- No longer used
- No longer used
- No maintainer in Nixpkgs - No upstream activity - Original source unavailable
- No activity upstream - Known vulnerabilities
- No activity upstream
- Not useful without the KDE 4 desktop
This reverts commit c2fcc909cb42d9aaa456d211f9c68cc24f4ef804. - Upstream development is ongoing; we will keep psi for now to preserve continuity.
It was permanently disabled anyway.
Our kdelibs4 package does not come from KDE 4, so per upstream's request I am moving it out of the kde4 set.
To comply with upstream's request, only packages released as part of KDE 4 will be in the kde4 set.
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The Travis failure is a spurious build timeout. |
Here I begin to remove the KDE 4 desktop packages.
Discussion period until 25 Feb 2017. To be announced on the mailing list.
The NixOS module for KDE 4 has already been removed. Relevant discussion is at #15866.
I have removed as many core packages as possible at this time. To facilitate this, I have removed third-party applications that depend on KDE 4 if I think they are unlikely to be updated. The remainder should be updated as soon as possible to remove the remaining KDE 4 libraries. The major offenders here are:
In the process of removing core libraries, I discovered that we have not been keeping up-to-date on Nepomuk libraries. This happened because upstream bundles Nepomuk with kdelibs, but our builder was separating them. As a result, we had new kdelibs with old Nepomuk. It is possible there are undisclosed vulnerabilities with our old KDE 4 packages and users should be moved away from them as soon as possible.
ATTN: @grahamc