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To: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
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On 07.01.2013 09:54, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
> Are you willing to step up as the maintainer of the KDE3 ports? Or
> anyone else reading this? The situation with ports like KDE3 is that
> they are lots of work to keep up in shape and if no one wants to
> maintain them they succumb to what is called "bitrot" very quickly
> when something changes in dependent ports or in the base system.
When/if that happens, we can renew the conversation. For the time being 
there are no build errors.

    -mi