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Bug 339

Summary:	Duplicating upstream efforts
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Darrell <darrella>
Component:	other (any)	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugwatch, darrella, robxu9
Priority:	P1
Version:	3.5.13 [Trinity]
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:

Description Darrell 2010-10-04 09:50:53 CDT

Consistent with similar upstream library packages, such as SIP and PyQt3, several packages in the Trinity SVN duplicate upstream efforts. Unless there are overriding reasons, such as tqtinterface requirements, these packages should be considered candidates for removal from the Trinity SVN tree.

python-kde3 (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/)
libkdcraw (http://www.kipi-plugins.org/)
libkexiv2 (http://www.kipi-plugins.org/)
kipi-plugins (http://www.kipi-plugins.org/)
libkipi (http://www.kipi-plugins.org/)

Comment 1 Robert Xu 2011-03-12 20:19:32 CST

TQtinterface breaks direct compatibility, so yes, that is an overriding reason.
Also for the kipi-plugins, they don't look maintained upstream to me anymore.

Realize that we'll be still pulling patches from upstream should we need to, but Trinity has diverged significantly from the original codebase.

Comment 2 Timothy Pearson 2011-03-12 20:21:11 CST

Also I would like to mention that the "upstream" sources are changing VERY slowly, and in many cases not changing at all, making it a rather bad idea to pull from a known dying source.