Bug ID 1159041
Summary Leap 15.2 drop requests
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Distribution
Version Leap 15.2
Hardware Other
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Normal
Priority P5 - None
Component Other
Assignee christophe@krop.fr
Reporter lnussel@suse.com
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
CC lubos.kocman@suse.com, mlin@suse.com
Found By ---
Blocker ---

Hey Christophe! thanks for your efforts to take care of Leap. I see you filed a
bunch of drop requests for things you consider obsolete. Please keep in mind
that 15.2 is a service pack level upgrade. In general the version of the
distribution must be considered 15. Users do not expect stuff to break when
upgrading between minor version. So just as we try hard to not take away
programs from people via maintenance we shouldn't do that in service packs
either. The fact that we can do technically should be the exception not the
rule.

So not maintained upstream anymore or dropped from Factory is not a reason for
the Leap 15 series to drop a package. As long as the software works we need to
keep it. If the software in question never worked we can just as well get rid
of it of course.
So I need your confirmation on the following packages on whether they are just
dropped for being unmaintained or linking against qt4, or they are actually
broken ie unusable:

H2rename
Qross
fate   (fate is still used by some departments in SUSE AFAIK)
jovie
kaccessible
kate4-parts
kdesdk4-scripts
keepassx
kepas
klinkstatus
konsole4-part
kpassgen
kppp
kremotecontrol
kuser
kvkbd
kvpnc
libjreen
libkdegames4
libkqoauth
python-pyside
python-pyside-tools
tomahawk

The following look fine as they are replaced by other bits:

jag-level-editor
qgo


Also, any dropped or replaced packaged should be mentioned in the release notes
at https://github.com/openSUSE/release-notes-openSUSE/tree/Leap_15.2/xml


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