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

Adriaan de Groot adridg at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 26 11:32:35 UTC 2018


[[ now responding not from an on-the-road disposable address ]]

On Monday, 26 November 2018 10:12:48 CET Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 08:44:46AM +0100, Jan Beich wrote:
> > 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? 

It isn't, yet. I should have said "We would like to remove it in Q1 2019 and 
are working on the related announcements right now, so you are ahead of the 
game" or something like that.

> > 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.

For sure. We're going to do roughly the same thing as with KDE4: blog, news, 
as well as the formal announcement and chasing individual port maintainers.


> There is a review going on right now about it.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17741

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