ports/158234: net-im/gnome-jabber: request for marking it BROKEN and DEPRECATED

Ruslan Mahmatkhanov cvs-src at yandex.ru
Thu Jun 23 19:30:14 UTC 2011


>Number:         158234
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       net-im/gnome-jabber: request for marking it BROKEN and DEPRECATED
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 23 19:30:13 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ruslan Mahmatkhanov
>Release:        9.0-CURRENT
>Organization:
>Environment:
9.0-CURRENT i386
>Description:
net-im/gnome-jabber should be marked as BROKEN and DEPRECATED. It's because:

a) it doesn't build for me on -current (i didn't test 8-stable):
"""
libtool: link: require no space between `-L' and `-lXss'
gmake[2]: *** [gnome-jabber] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/net-im/gnome-jabber/work/gnome-jabber-0.4/src'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/net-im/gnome-jabber/work/gnome-jabber-0.4'
gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
*** Error code 1
"""

b) project was superceded by net-im/gossip (dead now too) and no new releases was produced since 2004. 
http://gnome-jabber.sourceforge.net/
"""
[28/10/05] - Gnome Jabber a dead project!
Gnome Jabber has not been developed for some time now and since I moved over to work on Gossip and am now one of two maintainers on the project I am dropping any support for Gnome Jabber.
"""
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