Removal of KPackage from the KDEAdmin module

[Dario Freddi]

On Friday 11 December 2009 14:24:32 Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Friday 11 December 2009 13:04:21 George Kiagiadakis wrote:
> > 2009/12/10 Darío Andrés <andresbajotierra at gmail.com>:
> > > Hi everyone.
> > > As far as I know KPackage is currently unmaintained and outdated and
> > > it should be replaced by KPackageKit in some ways or by any other
> > > distro tool. Is that right ? so far I haven't seen too much activity
> > > in its code (besides some generic optimizations)
> > > - Should we remove this application from the kdeadmin module ? (we are
> > > still getting bug reports from this app, as people tries to use it...)
> > > (BTW, Kubuntu is not distributing this app anymore)
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Darío A. (bugs.kde.org)
> >
> > +1 for removing.
> >
> > Btw, this is not the only unmaintained and broken app....
> > /me hides :P
> 
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/kiconedit/ should also be
> removed. I'm the original author but haven't touched it for +10 years. Some
> nice people have ported it to KDE4 but it's ugly and outdated and from the
> time when and icon was an xpm with no more than 40 colors ;-)

This thread is slowly becoming "slaughtering old stuff" ;D

Anyway, given the original question, since me and Daniel are the only ones who 
I know of working on package management (sorry if I am missing out something), 
given no objections from KPackage's maintainer I think it can be removed, and 
it will have some proper replacements soon (even if in eg)

> 

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Dario Freddi
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