Bug 620744

Summary:	sci-chemistry/ball depends on dev-qt/qtwebkit:4
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Palimaka (kensington) <kensington>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Chemistry-Related Packages <sci-chemistry>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	620684

Description Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev

2017-06-04 07:44:49 UTC

sci-chemistry/ball depends on dev-qt/qtwebkit:4 which is ancient and will never see any security updates.

If it's not possible to disable this and there's no upstream port available, it might be time to consider removing this package.

Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-06-04 07:50:35 UTC

No upstream release for years. Happy to see this being dropped.

Comment 2 Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev

2017-06-04 08:18:29 UTC

Looking into this a bit further, qtwebkit is never actually used, and in fact was already dropped but the dependency was actually specified twice:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/sci-chemistry/ball/ball-1.4.2-r1.ebuild?id=0947afa365abf88670172058186a1ff22de84a07

So I dropped the duplicate:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ba5d8019e4133db35d0b4b4d04b9248af246f80f

I see recent activity in upstream git master, so maybe there's hope for the future still.