Remove KDE 4 desktop packages

[ttuegel]

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:

• Calligra
• Zanshin
• KDE Telepathy
• Amarok

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

[ttuegel]

A terse change log:

Removed Now

Removed Outright

• semnotes
• psi
• partition-manager
• liblikeback
• libkvkontakte
• libalkimia
• kuickshow
• kvirc
• kmymoney
• kdesvn
• kbibtex
• choqok
• basket
• bangarang
• rekonq and kwebkitpart
• rsibreak
• kwooty
• qtcurve
• oxygen-gtk
• eventlist
• kde-wacomtablet

Already Updated

Removed KDE 4 versions.

• digikam
• kdeconnect
• kdevelop
• kdiff3
• kile
• krename
• konversation
• quassel
• skrooge
• yakuake
• bluedevil
• colord-kde
• kde-gtk-config
• ksshaskpass
• plasma-nm, libmm-qt, and libnm-qt
• polkit-kde-agent
• ktorrent and libktorrent
• kipi-plugins

To Be Removed Dec 2017

Update Available

• calligra (Updated Calligra for KDE 5 #22966)
• kmplayer (Update KMPlayer for KDE 5 #22959)
• krusader (Update krusader for KDE 5 #22952)
• telepathy (Update KTP for KDE 5 #22954)

Development Version Available

• k3b
• kadu (Update Kadu for KDE 5 #22956)
• kgraphviewer (Update KGraphViewer for KDE 5 #22958)
• ktikz (Update KTikZ for KDE 5 #22961)
• massif-visualizer (Update massif-visualizer for KDE 5 #22963)
• zanshin (Update Zanshin for KDE 5 #22964)
• psi
• kgocode

[ttuegel]

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.

[7c6f434c]

### Removed Outright - psi

it actually does have an unreleased qt5 version (and maybe it can even be made independent of KDE)

[ttuegel]

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.

[7c6f434c]

> 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…

[tosky]

In the "removed outright" section there are various applications with a Frameworks 5 version, at least:

• choqok
• kmymoney
• partition-manager
• kdesvn
• rsibreak

PSI, semnotes are not by KDE.
Basket is not by KDE anymore but it has a Frameworks-based beta .

[ttuegel]

In the "removed outright" section there are various applications with a Frameworks 5 version, at least:

choqok
kmymoney
partition-manager
kdesvn
rsibreak

PSI, semnotes are not by KDE.
Basket is not by KDE anymore but it has a Frameworks-based beta .

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.

[ttuegel]

The Travis failure is a spurious build timeout.