State of support of the Colibri skin

Hi!
This post was prompted by this discussion we had recently on a PR.

Colibri Skin has been developed in version 2.0 (Sep 2009) and used as a default Skin until version 6.2 (Sep 2014), when it was replaced by Flamingo Skin.

Support for Colibri was maintained until XE 6.4.x and the skin was retired in 8.0.

From the colibri archive readme.
Colibri extension documentation.

1. I can’t find in the doc any written relation between deprecated and retired. From what I understand, every retired module is also deprecated. Is this right?
2. Is it alright to explicitely break compatibility with Colibri as of today? We didn’t test anything on it in the past 10 years (we probably broke compatibility in tens of places since then), but there’s still plenty of CSS in our xwiki-platform codebase only to make Colibri work well. The best solution would be to move all this CSS somewhere in the Colibri module, but it’s archived, so it doesn’t really make sense to update it either AFAIU.

Thanks in advance for your help on those two questions!

Lucas C.

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