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On 2014-10-12, Nuno Silva (aka njsg) <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> wrote: |
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> On 2014-09-02, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> They were already masked, but because of |
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>> http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/08/31/msn-messenger-is-completely-shutting-down-on-october-31st/ |
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>> , I see no point having these packages in the tree anymore. I will |
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>> remove them in 30 days |
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>> # Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> (02 Sep 2014) |
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>> # MSN service terminated. |
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>> # You can still use your MSN account in net-im/skype |
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>> # or switch to an open protocol instead |
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>> # Masked for removal in 30 days |
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>> net-im/kmess |
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>> net-im/amsn |
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>> x11-themes/amsn-skins |
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> |
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> This is not the first time that people report that "MSN is going to shut |
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> down". So far, Skype itself is reported to use the MSN protocol internally |
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> in the latest versions. |
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> IMHO it would be better if the packages were removed because they don't |
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> work with the current versions of MSNP supported by the servers than |
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> because of a forbes article. |
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> In fact, this article says "MSN Messenger is only available in mainland |
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> China until then.". I have just connected two MSN Messenger accounts |
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> through amsn 0.98.9 on gentoo and I successfully sent messages between |
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> the accounts. |
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> amsn seems to be working outside of china. You may want to reconsider |
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> this mask for removal. |
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I filled bug 525100 about this |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525100 |
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This bug report should perhaps be expanded to include other packages |
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which are masked as part of the same "MSN service terminated" mask or |
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similar. |
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Nuno Silva (aka njsg) |
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Helsinki, Finland |
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