Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:31:35 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: quarterly 2024Q3 amd64 / 13.3 missing all vital packages for desktop Message-ID: <608da216-2047-4fdd-b48b-88659dedb27c@quip.cz>
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A simple pkg upgrade of the desktop and the result is an unusable system without all important components. What's wrong with package repositories? I intentionally use quarterly to avoid frequent breakage seen in the latest. Now I've run the pkg upgrade on KDE5 Plasma desktop (on 13.3 amd64) and the result is that the pkg upgrade uninstalled all my important stuff like Firefox, Thunderbird, Ardour, Gimp, Telegram, Audacity, Audacious, Pidgin etc. In short, everything I use on a daily basis. Finally, pkg autoremove offers me to delete 520 more packages! Isn't the quarterly branch supposed to be the stable one, for users who don't need the hottest new stuff, but mainly want to avoid similar breakages? pkg: No packages available to install matching 'ImageMagick7' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'ardour' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'audacious-plugins' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'audacity' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'dolphin-plugins' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'falkon' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'firefox' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gimp' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gimp-beautify-plugin' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gimp-lensfun-plugin' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gimp-lqr-plugin' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gimp-refocus-plugin' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'kde5' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-encryption' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-fetion' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-hotkeys' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-icyque' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-libnotify' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-manualsize' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-otr' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-skypeweb' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-window_merge' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'purple-googlechat' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'purple-hangouts' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'remmina-lite' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'smplayer' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'telegram-desktop' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'thunderbird' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'vlc' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'wireshark' have been found in the repositories pkg: No packages available to install matching 'xsane' have been found in the repositories Given that the quarterly is in the middle of its lifetime, it cannot be some transient breakage after branch creation. Are the quarterly branches / packages abandoned? Kind regards Miroslav Lachman
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