I have finished an update for glib2 and friends yesterday (including proper bootstrapping of the ports) which is needed for a new port I want to add, just didn’t push a PR yet. I started opening some PRs for a few other packages first, but can push an PR with the updates to the “-devel” ports shortly so you don’t have to redo the same work. You’ll see a PR in the next hour or so.
I am not using “gnome-music” an any of the other old packages and totally agree with you we cannot block updates forever just to keep old cruft working. Renee > On Feb 13, 2026, at 11:10 AM, Gregorio Litenstein <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi everyonne. I'm currently working to update glib2 and its extended family. > In doing so, I noticed a note inside py-gobject3 about "older ports" needing > the ability to build with python 3.6. > > I ran `port list depends:py36-gobject3`, and got gnome-music and gnome3-core > for results. > > Regarding the former, the gnome-music port is currently version 3.24.2, > released in may 2017, while the current version, as of a couple of months > ago, is 48.3. > Regarding gnome3-core, we have 3.26.2, release in november 2017. GNOME 3 went > EOL five years ago, after 3.38.0. > > So... is anybody actually using these things? I see they have been maintained > relatively recently with chores and menial updates, but they haven't actually > beenn updated in years, and I thik it'd be ridiculous to hold important > updates to big libraries because of them. > > For now, I think I won't touch them, but I really think they should be > removed, especially if they prove to be blockers for updating py-gobject3. > > All the best. > > > Gregorio Litenstein Goldzweig > Médico Cirujano > > Fono: +56 9 96343643 > E-Mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
