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