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Last riting for classic skype has officially been commenced. |
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Anyone who wants to install it should either grab the ebuilds now, or |
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be prepared to go fishing through the git-based repo's history. |
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I personally plan to keep it installed until microsoft itself blocks |
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it from login. |
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On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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> |
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> Thank you for letting us know. |
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> |
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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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> |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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