Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 65th quarterly release
of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system.  pkgsrc is available
with more than 20,000 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more
information on pkgsrc itself is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/

In total, 190 packages were added, 96 packages were removed, and 1,868
package updates (to 1388 unique packages) were processed since the
pkgsrc-2019Q3 release.  As usual, a large number of updates and
additions were processed for packages for go (14), guile (11), perl
(170), php (10), python (426), and ruby (110).  This continues
pkgsrc's tradition of adding useful packages, updating many packages
to more current versions, and pruning unmaintained packages that are
believed to have essentially no users.

For the 2019Q4 release we welcome the following notable package
additions and changes to the pkgsrc collection:

 - Many qt and kde packages were updated to qt5 and kde5
 - ansible 2.9.2
 - clang (and llvm) 9.0.0
 - cmake 3.16.1
 - compat80 8.0 (NetBSD 8 compatibility libs for -9 and -current)
 - emacs-snapshot 27.0.50
 - erlang 22.1.8
 - firefox 70.01
 - git 2.24.1
 - go 1.13.5
 - libreoffice 6.3.3.2
 - openjdk 11
 - Mesa 19.2.7
 - meson 0.52.1 (the package was also renamed)
 - mono 6.4.0.98
 - mutt 1.13.2
 - nextcloud 17.0.0
 - nodejs 13.3.0
 - php 7.4.1
 - pkgin 0.14.0
 - postgresql 12
 - py-certbot 1.0.0
 - python 3.8
 - qgis 3.8.3
 - rust 1.39.0
 - sqlite 3.30.0
 - tor 0.4.2.5

We say notable goodbyes to:

 - NodeJS 6
 - PHP 7.1

Changes to the pkgsrc infrastructure:

 - Many small improvements, but no significant changes

Users of netbsd-7 (with gcc) should expect significant breakage as the
upstreams of many packages require newer compilers and/or language
features.  This is newly mentioned, but the situation is not sharply
worse than previous branches.

Instructions on using the binary package manager can be found at
http://pkgin.net.  pkgsrc itself can be obtained as a tar file, as a
CVS checkout, or via a git mirror.  See
https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html.  The branch name for
the 2019Q4 branch is "pkgsrc-2019Q4".

Greg