Bug#604360: Preparations for the removal of the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries

On 02/23/2012 09:31 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Given that LSB has deprecated the use of Qt3 libraries since its 3.2
> version, I propose to demote the relationship on libqt3-mt from Depends
> to Recommends.
> 
> This would mean that Qt3 would still be installed by lsb-desktop in
> default installations (where apt recommends are enabled) but at the same
> time make the LSB support in Debian future-proof and allow seamless
> removal of Qt3 when its time will have come.
> 
> Opinions ?

I would definitely not go that far, at least not yet.  Qt 3 is
deprecated, yes, but definitely still required for full LSB support.

LSB 5.0 (currently in development) will drop Qt 3.  At that point, the
dependency can be dropped entirely.