[kde-freebsd] kde3 ports expired today

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 10:20:22AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Monday, July 01, 2013 a las 09:59:48AM +0200, René Ladan escribió:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the KDE3 ports (263 of them) expired today. They were marked for
> > removal since December 30, so the plan is to remove them soon.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Rene
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have (perhaps) all seen this in UPDATING and while compiling qt3*
> ports; I think, it is not a good idea deleting the KDE3 ports (which do
> compile) from our ports tree, while the KDE4 ports do not compile, at
> least not on i386 architecture. See the PR's about automoc4 and others.
> 
> Just my humble opinion
> 
> 	matthias
> 

Problem is that kde3 is not maintained anymore upstream, not security reviews
are performed any more etc. It has been deprecated for 6 month, and no one came
up to:
1/ take maitainership of kde3
2/ import the maintained and supported trinity project.

regards,
Bapt
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