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On 2014-10-19, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> wrote: |
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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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>>> |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> |
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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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>>> |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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To clarify: |
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The maintainers (perhaps the net-im herd) *have* to remove these masks |
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on the MSN Messenger clients, because they don't make sense at all: |
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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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The MSN Messenger service (aka "Windows Live Messenger", ...) is still |
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working, and it has never been terminated. MSN Messenger can actually |
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even be used to chat (in text) with (some) Skype users without having to |
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use net-im/skype. |
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amsn is still working as expected, you can even create new accounts and |
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make them work with the MSN Messenger service using amsn. A few days |
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ago, I successfully sent messages between two MSN Messenger accounts |
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connected using amsn. |
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Nuno Silva (aka njsg) |
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Helsinki, Finland |
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