[Pkg-kde-extras] Future of KDE Bindings for KDE3

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday 22 December 2008 06:43, Mitsuya Shibata wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2008/12/21 Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>:
> > libkorundum0-ruby1.8
> > Reverse Depends:
> >  kita2
> > Is there a plan to transition this to libkorundum4-ruby1.8?  This looks
> > like a package that actually needs the bindings from KDE3 for now.  Is
> > upstream working on porting it?
>
> When released current version (1.90.4) in 23rd Sep, upstream author said
> "I will support KDE 4 in next version, if I can spare the time."
>
> I will check whether kita2 work with libkorundum4-ruby1.8, or will
> look into any solution without blocking KDE4 transition.
>
> Thank you for notification.

As a followup, it appears that kita2 is the only package (after the Amarok 2 
transition) that would be hurt by dropping the bindings for KDE3.  This is a 
signficant maintenance burden that we really can't justify for one package.

Please let your upstream know that we are going to drop KDE3 bindings support 
before our next release and so kita2 will have to be ported if it's going to 
stay in the archive.

Thanks,

Scott K