Bug 222784

Summary: net-im/libpurple and pidgin no longer support MSN and Yahoo!
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Mikhail T. <freebsd-2024>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me Keywords: easy, patch-ready
Priority: --- Flags: bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (marcus)
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Remove mentions of MSN and Yahoo! from descriptions of libpurple and pidgin ports none

Description Mikhail T. 2017-10-04 19:44:24 UTC 
Created attachment 186909 [details]
Remove mentions of MSN and Yahoo! from descriptions of libpurple and pidgin ports

libpurple dropped support for Yahoo! and MSN in March:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/pidgin-drops-facebook-xmpp

The patch updated package-descriptions to remove mentions of the removed protocols.
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-10-04 22:31:59 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: marcus
Date: Wed Oct  4 22:31:41 UTC 2017
New revision: 451253
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/451253

Log:
  Remove the mention of MSN and Yahoo! from pkg-descrs.

  Pidgin dropped support for these services back in March 2017.

  PR:		222784
  Submitted by:	mi

Changes:
  head/net-im/finch/pkg-descr
  head/net-im/libpurple/pkg-descr
  head/net-im/pidgin/pkg-descr
Comment 2 Joe Marcus Clarke freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-10-04 22:32:32 UTC 
Committed, thanks!