Hi Lev,

Lev Lamberov <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Xiyue,
>
> Ср 10 июн 2026 @ 01:58 Xiyue Deng <[email protected]>:
>
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Xiyue Deng <[email protected]>
>>
>> * Package name    : elfeed-web
>>   Version         : 4.0.0
>>   Upstream Author : Christopher Wellons <[email protected]>
>> * URL or Web page : https://github.com/emacs-elfeed/elfeed-web
>> * License         : Unlicense
>>   Programming lang: Emacs Lisp
>>   Description     : Web interface to Elfeed
>>  This is a very early work in progress.  The long-term goal is to
>>  provide a web interface view of the database with optional remote
>>  tag updating.  An AngularJS client accesses the database over a few
>>  RESTful endpoints with JSON for serialization.
>>  .
>>  The IDs provided by RSS and Atom are completely arbitrary.  To avoid
>>  ugly encoding issues they're normalized into short, unique,
>>  alphanumeric codes called webids.  Both feeds and entries fall into
>>  the same webid namespace so they share a single endpoint.
>>
>> `elfeed-web' used to be part of `elfeed' but was split out into a
>> standalone package since 4.0.0. I'll maintain it under the Emacsen team
>> umbrella.
>
> Previously elfeed-web depended on packages not in Debian and required to
> load Javascript libraries from external sources. Please, see #949537.
>
> One has to package those dependencies first. Otherwise the elfeed-web
> cannot enter main and should stay at contrib or non-free.
>
> #949537: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949537
>
> Regards,
> Lev

Thanks for the reminder! And I have checked and confirmed that upstream
has removed those dependencies in the 4.0.0 release[1]. I have also
noted about this in the debian/copyright file[2] for the record. So all
is well :)

[1] 
https://github.com/emacs-elfeed/elfeed-web/commit/907bafd3ac6954a92d50a2ca0208000c532d0ead
[2] 
https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/elfeed-web/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/copyright?ref_type=heads#L5-9

-- 
Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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