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From: Max Brazhnikov <makc@issp.ac.ru>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/accessibility/kdeaccessibility Makefile
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On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:09:37 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 10:21, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
> > Reset maintainership de jure. In fact KDE 3 has not been maintained by
> > our team
> > 
> >   for a long time, not to mention upstream.
> >   
> >   Discussed a while ago among the KDE/FreeBSD team.
> 
> Certainly if the ports are not being maintained by kde@ then dropping
> maintainership is the right solution. However given the situation
> wouldn't deprecation+expiry be the logical next step?

Until ports are not broken or/and forbidden I see no reason for deprecation 
and removing them.
However you may consider this step as a recommendation to migrate from 
Qt3/KDE3 ports to anything else.

Max