Removing kcontrol/smartcard

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Fri Oct 18 07:51:08 UTC 2013


On Thursday 17 October 2013 23:46:39 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 19:46:39 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > the KCM for smartcards in kcontrol/smartcard got never ported to KDE4. I
> > think  after five years and 12 releases of coma it's time to perform
> > active
> > euthanasia as I consider it as unlikely that someone will come and revive
> > by porting from kdelibs3 to frameworks 5 directly.
> > 
> > So same game as yesterday: if nobody yells no till Monday I'm going to git
> > rm  that module. Whoever speaks up volunteers to port the module.
> 
> Wasn't there an unmaintained area?
that was back in svn days where one could just do an svn mv. I would not know 
how to do that in git times. If the repo were split we could just move it in 
the project structure.
> As long as we keep the repo around,
> someone can always come around and salvage the code in there.
same with git rm. Everybody can just revert the removal commit.

Cheers
Martin
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