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On Saturday, 7 October 2017 17:32:21 BST Raymond Jennings wrote: |
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> Due to the removal of qt4, all of its reverse dependencies are also going |
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> to be removed. |
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> This decision has already been made by the qt project and is not up for |
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> discussion. |
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> Furthermore, qt4 has a large number of security bugs and it has also been |
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> brought to my attention that it even fails to build in a few cases, and |
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> finally it is no longer being maintained by upstream. Therefore, due to |
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> the build failures making it impossible to even install in a large number |
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> of cases, and thus skype classic, I'm no longer going to maintain it. |
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> Anyone who really wants to keep classic skype still, feel free to install |
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> the "kde sunset" overlay to recover the soon-to-be-removed qt4 dependencies |
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> and for the moment make a snapshot of the ebuild before it is removed from |
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> the portage tree. |
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> Also, even though they haven't *yet* followed through, microsoft has |
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> announced already that the classic version of skype will eventually be |
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> EOL'ed. at the moment you're still able to install it as of 48 hours ago |
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> last time I checked, but it is on the chopping block and likely will |
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> eventually be removed from download, as well as banned from microsoft's |
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> login servers. Once this happens further usage will be impossible. |
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> No further support can be offered on skype classic, and it is eventually |
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> going to be removed from the portage tree for the reasons listed above. |
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Thank you for letting us know. |
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I have already moved to net-im/skypeforlinux because cross-platform usage of |
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(classic) skype started malfunctioning some months ago now. Skypeforlinux |
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works OK for me at present. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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