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[Tilman Keskinöz]

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.