Plaese remove from Eoan: plasma-mediacenter: build-depends on obsolete libkfilemetadata-dev

[Steve Langasek]

kfilemetadata has been removed from Debian unstable. The only reverse-dependency in Ubuntu which prevents its removal is plasma-mediacenter, which has a build-dependency on libkfilemetadata-dev.

Either plasma-mediacenter should be updated to not build-depend on kfilemetadata, or plasma-mediacenter should be removed, or someone should take ownership of kfilemetadata in Ubuntu if it's still needed by uploading it with a changed maintainer field.

If there is no action on this bug by the eoan release, I will opt to remove kfilemetadata from eoan and leave plasma-mediacenter unbuildable - since it's a build-dependency but not a runtime dependency, I suspect that the build-dep is spurious and can easily be dropped when someone cares.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Assigning to Rik, as the uploader of the only 2 uploads of this package in the past 3 years

[Rik Mills (rikmills)]

This package is dead upstream. Last released in 2016 on a plasma 5.7 branch, where we are now up to Plasma 5.16.

There are a few 'fixit' commit in upstream git by well intentioned non maintainers, but this thing is never going see a new release.

[Rik Mills (rikmills)]

So this can and should be removed in preference to trying to fix.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Removing packages from eoan:
 plasma-mediacenter 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan
  plasma-mediacenter 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan amd64
  plasma-mediacenter 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan arm64
  plasma-mediacenter 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan armhf
  plasma-mediacenter 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan i386
  plasma-mediacenter 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan ppc64el
  plasma-mediacenter 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan s390x
  plasma-mediacenter-dbg 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan amd64
  plasma-mediacenter-dbg 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan arm64
  plasma-mediacenter-dbg 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan armhf
  plasma-mediacenter-dbg 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan i386
  plasma-mediacenter-dbg 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan ppc64el
  plasma-mediacenter-dbg 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu2 in eoan s390x
Comment: Dead upstream, depends on obsolete qt4 and libkfilemetadata-dev; LP: #1841097
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