Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 23:18:17 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: removal of QT1/KDE1 ports Message-ID: <3CC07B89.29E1C322@FreeBSD.org> References: <200204190230.g3J2U5b84091@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020419014600.A32104@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020419124703.GX89460@squall.waterspout.com> <20020419125818.B47724@xor.obsecurity.org>
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[redirected to ports@, where it belongs] Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:47:03AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:46:00AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Why did you remove these? As far as I can tell, qt-1.x was not > > > broken, and its' only "crime" is being old. > > > > It is a support nightmare to keep, not to mention most of the > > ports are mostly useless since most people won't be using them. > > People had plenty of notice, approximately 9 months, to update > > their ports to a newer version of Qt, or remove the dependency > > on Qt. > > I don't think this is good enough. For example, my xglobe port worked > perfectly with qt1, and still does. It doesn't work with qt2 and > hasn't been updated by the author, but the end user does not have to > care. > > If it's a support nightmare for _you_ then you should have handed off > maintainership to someone else instead of removing other people's > working ports with no discussion. 200% agree. IMO the appropriate approach is to just switch off maintainership to ports@FreeBSD.org if KDE team can't maintain those ports, especialy considering that you have deleted not only ports maintained by kde@FreeBSD.org, but other people as well, thus you have voided all efforts people have put into those ports. It is inappropriate to think that the KDE team has a power to remove other peoples' work just because it "controls" kde/qt stuff and doesn't have a manpower to maintain old qt1/kde1 stuff. In a short: please backout the deletion and just reset maintainership to ports@FreeBSD.org. Thanks! -Maxim > > Could you point me to your message of 9 months ago where you announced > your intentions to do this? > > Kris > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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