On Monday, 02 December, 2013 16:28:32 José Manuel Santamaría Lema wrote: > 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
Just get it from kde-apps.org and compile it. Program has problems but it is quicker than the others. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1991450.us3W49t5Ee@dovidhalevi
