From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: Re: qt4 packages Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 07:59:41 +0200 Message-ID: <1a093ae3-12c8-e628-8817-120f8b6d0c98@crazy-compilers.com> References: <20190715181702.GG22158@macbook41> <87lfwzjfh6.fsf@nckx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51035) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnGVB-0005ed-V7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 01:59:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnGVA-0003SO-Gw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 01:59:49 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:42281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnGVA-0003QJ-AG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 01:59:48 -0400 Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45nqVQ6Zqqz1rQBm for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 07:59:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.70]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45nqVQ6LxTz1qqkG for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 07:59:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id w-AR10lzdS0R for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 07:59:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hermia.goebel-consult.de (ppp-188-174-49-35.dynamic.mnet-online.de [188.174.49.35]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 07:59:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.110.2] (lenashee.goebel-consult.de [192.168.110.2]) by hermia.goebel-consult.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E00A6603DA for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 07:59:44 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87lfwzjfh6.fsf@nckx> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Am 15.07.19 um 20:54 schrieb Tobias Geerinckx-Rice: > Efraim, Guix, > > Efraim Flashner =E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A >> tipp10 Debian continues to build with qt-4 > > In cases like this one (where the software has been unmaintained for > years), is the plan simply to remove them altogether?=20 Why drop a package which is still okay, just because it it unmaintained? --=20 Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |