Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:13:21 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <Erik.Trulsson.1013@student.uu.se> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why delete KDE3 ports? Message-ID: <20130107161321.63449rhmrb0af95d@webmail.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <50EAE40E.5090300@aldan.algebra.com> References: <mailman.202.1357547625.2166.freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> <50EADA33.9010308@aldan.algebra.com> <50EADEFA.2070201@marino.st> <CA%2B7WWSeUb15S_8XRoSiQy4-4fZUVH%2B0Gg914abpJdwzFCp_QEg@mail.gmail.com> <50EAE40E.5090300@aldan.algebra.com>
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Quoting "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>: > On 07.01.2013 09:54, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> Are you willing to step up as the maintainer of the KDE3 ports? Or >> anyone else reading this? The situation with ports like KDE3 is that >> they are lots of work to keep up in shape and if no one wants to >> maintain them they succumb to what is called "bitrot" very quickly >> when something changes in dependent ports or in the base system. > > When/if that happens, we can renew the conversation. For the time > being there are no build errors. Indeed. That a port is old is not a good reason to remove it. That a port is unmaintained is also not a good reason to remove it. If a port stops working and nobody steps up to fix it, *then* removal becomes a reasonable action, but not before that.
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