Getting rid of kde{base}-workspace-dev

[Jeremy Whiting]

I asked in #kdevelop yesterday and there are no concrete plans to
release a Qt5/kf5 based kdevelop any time soon, so as Harald suggested
building without that ksysguard feature is probably the best bet.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Scott Kitterman <debian at kitterman.com> wrote:
>> Since we no longer provide a KDE 4 workspace, pretty much any package that
>> build-depends on workspace-dev is partly or fully non-functional.  We ought
>> to, in short order, get rid of it.  Here's the affected packages:
>>
>> reverse-depends -b kdebase-workspace-dev
>> Reverse-Build-Depends
>> =====================
>> * bespin
>
> guess: uses it for window decoration and probably is optional so
> should be built without as kwin5 cannot load kwin4 decorations
>
>> * kshutdown
>
> judging from the name it uses ksmserver to shut down
>
>> * ktorrent
>
> as above
>
>> * plasma-widget-yawp
>
> unmaintained
>
>> * sentinella
>
> IIRC this one heavily uses ksysguard libs and probably needs removing
> unless there is a qt5 version
>
>> reverse-depends -b kde-workspace-dev
>> Reverse-Build-Depends
>> =====================
>> * apper
>> * kcometen4
>
> no clue
>
>> * kdeplasma-addons
>
> that should be plasma5 now as per kde's releases
>
>> * kdevelop
>
> uses ksysguard to get a list of processes for the debugger. this is
> optional and upstream (Aleix) suggested to simply build without this
> feature.
>
>> * kget
>
> probably same as ktorrent and kshutdown
>
>> * knemo
>
> probably uses ksysguard plotting tech looking at screenshots. so this
> one needs porting or removal as a whole I fear.
>
>> * ktux
>
> dead
>
>> * plasma-widget-adjustableclock
>> * plasma-widget-smooth-tasks
>> * redshift-plasmoid
>
> all plasmoids have no plasma5 version so I consider them unmaintained
> until further notice
>
> HS
>
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