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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:44:46 +0100
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adriaan de Groot <zomer2018@weirdbump.com>
Cc:        Koichiro Iwao <meta@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r485911 - in head/net-p2p/namecoin: . files
Message-ID:  <5zwk-s2oh-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <9916419.mF7Y50I3LY@beastie.bionicmutton.org> (Adriaan de Groot's message of "Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:28:50 %2B0100")
References:  <201811260204.wAQ24wC6035650@repo.freebsd.org> <9916419.mF7Y50I3LY@beastie.bionicmutton.org>

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Adriaan de Groot <zomer2018@weirdbump.com> writes:

> On Monday, 26 November 2018 03:04:58 CET Koichiro Iwao wrote:
>
>>   Also, switched to Qt5 because net/qt4-network is required by dependency
>>   however it fails to build with OpenSSL 1.1.1. FreeBSD base OpenSSL has
>> been switched to 1.1.1 since FreeBSD 12.
>
> Thank you for switching. If any good comes from the long-term brokenness of 
> qt4-network in the face of newer OpenSSL, it is that it now forces ports to 
> switch to Qt5. Qt4 is set to go away in the first quarter of 2019, so switching 
> is recommended anyway.

Where "Qt4 is set to go away" documented? I mean something more formal
than a blog post by one of kde@ team. If you don't engage maintainers
either via EXPIRATION_DATE or by opening bugs few will notice, let alone
ask upstream for a fix or come up with one themselves.



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