cvs commit: ports/accessibility/kdeaccessibility Makefile
ports/arabic/kde3-i18n Makefile ports/arabic/koffice-i18n
Makefile ports/audio/arts Makefile ports/audio/juk Makefile
ports/audio/mpeglib_artsplug Makefile
ports/chinese/kde3-i18n-zh_CN Makefile ...
Tilman Keskinöz
arved at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 7 19:53:29 UTC 2011
On Jul 7, 2011, at 21:13 , Max Brazhnikov wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:09:37 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 07/07/2011 10:21, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
>>> Reset maintainership de jure. In fact KDE 3 has not been maintained by
>>> our team
>>>
>>> for a long time, not to mention upstream.
>>>
>>> Discussed a while ago among the KDE/FreeBSD team.
>>
>> Certainly if the ports are not being maintained by kde@ then dropping
>> maintainership is the right solution. However given the situation
>> wouldn't deprecation+expiry be the logical next step?
>
> Until ports are not broken or/and forbidden I see no reason for deprecation
> and removing them.
Another reason to start the deprecation would be, that they are in the way
of KDE4.
So i think it is desirable to start deprecation.
But last time i asked on this list a few months ago, there where still several
users raising their interest, so maybe someone of them will step up in the next
days.
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