Why is amarok gone from FreeBSD?

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VulcanRidr

I'm just curious about this. Why was it removed? freshports says

Code: 
Deprecated DEPRECATED: No longer actively maintained upstream.
Expired This port expired on: 2023-03-31
Ignore IGNORE: cannot install: does not work with MySQL version 80 (MySQL 80 not supported)

However, this is for version 2.9.71. However it appears that amarok has had four releases in 2025 alone:

Code: 
[HEADING=3]August 9, 2025: Amarok 3.3.1 released[/HEADING]
[HEADING=3]July 8, 2025: Amarok 3.3 released[/HEADING]
[HEADING=3]February 15, 2025: Amarok 3.2.2 released[/HEADING]
[HEADING=3]January 11, 2025: Amarok 3.2.1 released[/HEADING]

With at least 5 releases in 2024...Which seems pretty far from "no longer actively maintained upstream."

Is there a way to get the more modern version added back in to FreeBSD?
 
As an observation,

Because it is not standard C++, Qt software tends to be especially prone to mass extinctions when the next version of MOC comes out. I think Gtk 1.x was supported almost two decades longer than i.e Qt2 of the same era.

And then throw in "desktop environment" bundled software like Amarok, etc. It becomes very prone to rot once the DE and its ecosystem is replaced with effectively a whole new set, which is what we saw in the KDE3->4 and Gnome2->3 period.

For longevity, standalone software tends to fair best. That said, Amarok did much better than its cohort, getting as far as Qt5. It must have been pretty good!
 
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