Diederik de Haas <[email protected]> > Hi! > > I just found a website that doesn't display properly in iceweasel, so I > wanted to try it with rekonq, only to find it's no longer in the archives. > What happened and will rekonq return to the archives? > > Cheers, > Diederik
Some time ago it was removed - allegedly - for security reasons with regarding to qtwebkit. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712808 As you can see in the bug report: * The removal wasn't asked by its current maintainer (me) * I tried to stop the removal, but it was removed anyway Furthermore as I explained here and in the other bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714688#35 There are other browsers which use the qtwebkit (which aren't maintained by me) which weren't removed from debian sid. So I don't buy the "it's for security" argument. Probably the removal of rekonq has more to do with a group of powerful people trying to make impossible any contribution from me to debian. The same people was responsible (among other things) for the "unexplainable" disappearing of qt-kde.debian.net several months ago (remember the bunch of mails of people asking how does one install kde 4.10 from experimental?) Also note that I offered myself to package a newer qtwebkit (I have updated it in siduction a few weeks ago) and the reply was: >Please refrain from forwarding changes to the pkg-kde team for reasons you are very well aware of. So at this point I have two possible conclusions about that "diversity statement"[1] which generated some debate in the mailing lists, it's either: a) packaging qtwebkit doesn't count as a "contribution which interacts constructively with our community" or b) it's the greatest bullshit ever told about debian. I have uploaded it here again a long time ago: http://mentors.debian.net/package/rekonq and made the corresponding RFS (request for sponsoring, the procedure to follow for those who don't have permissions to upload packages to sid). Nobody uploaded it. Also I have been maintaining it in siduction where is up to date. So, if you ask my opinion it's just a shame, but: If you want to use rekonq you can: a) Build it yourself from the mentors package. b) Add to your sources.list the siduction's kdenext repository. c) Switch completely to any debian derivative or just use other distribution. [1]http://www.debian.org/intro/diversity.en.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
