Bug 283430 – www-client/opera shared-qt3 builds depend on x11-libs/qt-3*

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-09-01 15:25:21 UTC]

I don't know what Opera, Inc. has planned so far, but 10.00 and 10.10 still have shared-qt3 builds and some arches do not have qt3-static builds.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-12-31 04:40:10 UTC]

# Timeline #

2010-01-01:

* mark qt:3 as deprecated with ewarn
* mask qt3 useflag in profiles
* add ewarn to qt3.eclass with link to removal policy
* prepare news item about qt:3 deprecation and future removal

2010-01-21:

* Qt team meeting: discuss actions to be taken regarding remaining
pkgs that use qt:3

Well, please let me know when to drop KEYWORDS=ppc. It's not entirely clear what the above means. PPC currently needs to depend on a pre-installed qt-3, so masking would basically notify PPC users, but only indirectly. When is x11-libs/qt-3 going to be MASKED, you say?

[Comment 2 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2009-12-31 12:21:22 UTC]

Next item on the timeline:

2010-02-21:
* mask qt:3 and depending ebuilds, pending removal

As Opera already has Qt4 builds for x86 and amd64, what's keeping them from doing it for ppc?

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-12-31 16:03:53 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Next item on the timeline:
> 
> 2010-02-21:
> * mask qt:3 and depending ebuilds, pending removal

I'll try to make sure to remove qt3 support shortly before that.

> As Opera already has Qt4 builds for x86 and amd64, what's keeping them from
> doing it for ppc?

As for Opera's policy on disclosing what arches are declared dead, it doesn't seem they have one - they certainly didn't announce that they dropped SPARC. But ppc support does seem to be on the way out.

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-12-31 17:14:13 UTC]

@ppc: What is your take on how to do this? Package.mask www-client/opera in the ppc profiles when the time comes, with a note telling persisting Opera users to install x11-libs/qt3 from the kde-sunset overlay?

[Comment 5 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2010-01-06 14:13:32 UTC]

Sounds fine to me.

[Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-01-23 17:16:23 UTC]

--- ChangeLog   2010-01-08 19:04:20.000000000 +0100
+++ ChangeLog.new       2010-01-23 18:15:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/arch/powerpc/ChangeLog,v 1.45 2010/01/08 10:45:31 flameeyes Exp $
 
+  23 Jan 2010; Jeroen Roovers <[e-mail]> package.mask:
+  Mask www-client/opera (bug #283430).

[Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-02-11 17:05:27 UTC]

Still no sign of a 10.50_pre* for ppc. Could be end of life...

[Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-02-16 18:17:44 UTC]

All qt3/ppc support has been removed from the 10.10/10.20 ebuilds that still had it.