Last riting for classic skype has officially been commenced. Anyone who wants to install it should either grab the ebuilds now, or be prepared to go fishing through the git-based repo's history.
I personally plan to keep it installed until microsoft itself blocks it from login. On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
