From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 7 14:43:09 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4BC3D38 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:43:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdml@marino.st) Received: from shepard.synsport.net (mail.synsport.com [208.69.230.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC3DE14 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:43:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.31.9.108] (unknown [213.225.137.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shepard.synsport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7002843BA7; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 08:43:07 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <50EADEFA.2070201@marino.st> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:43:06 +0100 From: John Marino User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mikhail T." Subject: Re: Why delete KDE3 ports? References: <50EADA33.9010308@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <50EADA33.9010308@aldan.algebra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 14:43:09 -0000 On 1/7/2013 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". > > Please, reconsider deleting this and other KDE-3 ports. I don't normally agree with Mikhail's rants to save old ports, but in the case of KDE-3, I am inclined to share his view. Are KDE-3 ports causing any problems? I don't know if KDE-3 is still be developed upstream, but if it's not it doesn't really need much maintenance. John