From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 7 18:40:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC8CB27 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:40:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beat@FreeBSD.org) Received: from marvin.chruetertee.ch (marvin.chruetertee.ch [217.150.245.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA14BC48 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:40:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zeus.network.lan (dynamic-94-247-222-039.catv.glattnet.ch [94.247.222.39]) (authenticated bits=0) by marvin.chruetertee.ch (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r07IeogX074145 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:40:50 GMT (envelope-from beat@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <50EB16B2.4070502@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:40:50 +0100 From: Beat Gaetzi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why delete KDE3 ports? References: <50EADA33.9010308@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <50EADA33.9010308@aldan.algebra.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:40:58 -0000 On 01/07/13 15:22, Mikhail T. wrote: > On 07.01.2013 03:33, freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org wrote: >> portname: accessibility/kdeaccessibility description: >> Accessibility applications for KDE maintainer:ports@FreeBSD.org >> deprecated because: Depends on QT3; unmaintained expiration date: >> 2013-07-01 build errors: none. >> overview:http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/portoverview.py?category=accessibility&portname=kdeaccessibility >> > >> Once again a working port (no build errors) is scheduled for deletion on > the grounds of simply being "unmaintained". QT 3.3.8 was released in 2007 and KDE 3.5.10 in 2008 and both are no longer maintained upstream nor in the ports tree. They possibly contain security vulnerabilities and they likely will break in the future if a build or lib dependency gets updated as they assume a 5 year old environment. The deprecation period was set to 6 month to give someone the opportunity to update QT3 and KDE3 to the Trinity fork and I'm happy to offer exp-runs (once the clusters are back) if someone has patches but I don't see a reason why we should keep pointyhat busy (during exp-runs and frequent QA runs) with something that is outdated and mostly unmaintained for years now, prone to break and possibly insecure. Beat > Please, reconsider deleting this and other KDE-3 ports. > > -mi