svn commit: r485911 - in head/net-p2p/namecoin: . files

Jan Beich jbeich at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 26 07:44:49 UTC 2018


Adriaan de Groot <zomer2018 at weirdbump.com> writes:

> On Monday, 26 November 2018 03:04:58 CET Koichiro Iwao wrote:
>
>>   Also, switched to Qt5 because net/qt4-network is required by dependency
>>   however it fails to build with OpenSSL 1.1.1. FreeBSD base OpenSSL has
>> been switched to 1.1.1 since FreeBSD 12.
>
> Thank you for switching. If any good comes from the long-term brokenness of 
> qt4-network in the face of newer OpenSSL, it is that it now forces ports to 
> switch to Qt5. Qt4 is set to go away in the first quarter of 2019, so switching 
> is recommended anyway.

Where "Qt4 is set to go away" documented? I mean something more formal
than a blog post by one of kde@ team. If you don't engage maintainers
either via EXPIRATION_DATE or by opening bugs few will notice, let alone
ask upstream for a fix or come up with one themselves.


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