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Re: Renaming www/vimb to www/vimb2 and importing wip/vimb3 as www/vimb



On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 05:03:33PM +0100, Leonardo Taccari wrote:
> Hello folks!
> If there are no (negative) feedbacks in a week or so I would like
> to rename www/vimb package to www/vimb2 and rename its binary, man
> page and share directory to vimb2 (instead of vimb).
> 
> After that I would like to import wip/vimb3 as www/vimb and install
> it as vimb (like upstream).
> 
> The rationale is: vimb-2.12 is EOL and depends on webkit24-gtk that
> is EOL too. However, at least recently on the mailing lists IIRC
> there were some users of it so I think it would be better to not
> remove it.
> vimb-3.3.0 (wip/vimb) was ported on WebKit 2 API and is actively
> developed (and depends on www/webkit-gtk, the latest stable version
> of webkit-gtk).
> 
> Any feedback is welcomed!

I'd go as far as removing the EOL package. Although if someone
complained he has problems, this is a reason to keep it until they are
resolved.


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