[opensuse-factory] Announcement: Intention to drop package qutim from Factory
Dear Listmates, With this email, I would like to indicate that the openSUSE KDE Community team has the intention to send a delete request for the package qutim in openSUSE:Factory. Qutim will still be available in KDE:Extra, however only for the combination openSUSE 13.1 and KDE 4.12 or lower combinations. The main reason is that the package seems to have been abandoned upstream as that the last change was about 2.5 years ago. For those that do not know the package, qutIM is a free and open-source multiprotocol (ICQ, Jabber, Mail.Ru, IRC, VKontakte) instant messenger for Windows, Linux, MacOS X, OS/2, Symbian, Maemo/MeeGo, Solaris and *BSD. Regards openSUSE KDE Community Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Not that I use it, BUT, question I would have is, does it still work or still do it's job? Many of those protocols are a decade or more old -- how much maintenance should "telnet" get before it is dropped from a dist if the telnet program hasn't been modified in 2.5 years (hypothethetical case)... Of course, if it has bugs against it and doesn't work, that's another story...;-) Raymond Wooninck wrote:
Dear Listmates,
With this email, I would like to indicate that the openSUSE KDE Community team has the intention to send a delete request for the package qutim in openSUSE:Factory. Qutim will still be available in KDE:Extra, however only for the combination openSUSE 13.1 and KDE 4.12 or lower combinations. The main reason is that the package seems to have been abandoned upstream as that the last change was about 2.5 years ago.
For those that do not know the package, qutIM is a free and open-source multiprotocol (ICQ, Jabber, Mail.Ru, IRC, VKontakte) instant messenger for Windows, Linux, MacOS X, OS/2, Symbian, Maemo/MeeGo, Solaris and *BSD.
Regards
openSUSE KDE Community Team
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Linda Walsh
Not that I use it, BUT, question I would have is, does it still work or still do it's job? Many of those protocols are a decade or more old -- how much maintenance should "telnet" get before it is dropped from a dist if the telnet program hasn't been modified in 2.5 years (hypothethetical case)... Of course, if it has bugs against it and doesn't work, that's another story...;-)
Raymond Wooninck wrote:
Dear Listmates, With this email, I would like to indicate that the openSUSE KDE Community team has the intention to send a delete request for the package qutim in openSUSE:Factory. Qutim will still be available in KDE:Extra, however only for the combination openSUSE 13.1 and KDE 4.12 or lower combinations. The main reason is that the package seems to have been abandoned upstream as that the last change was about 2.5 years ago. For those that do not know the package, qutIM is a free and open-source multiprotocol (ICQ, Jabber, Mail.Ru, IRC, VKontakte) instant messenger for Windows, Linux, MacOS X, OS/2, Symbian, Maemo/MeeGo, Solaris and *BSD. Regards openSUSE KDE Community Team
Almost all supported by qutIM protocols are supported by leechcraft-azoth too. -- Best regards, Dmitriy DA(P).DarkneSS Perlow @ Linux x64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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