Hi folks,

Are you aware there is active luakit development again?

aidanholm@ is the new maintainer and has removed the webkitgtk1 dependency
among other fixes:

https://luakit.github.io/
https://github.com/luakit/luakit
https://github.com/aidanholm

Regards,

Mason

On 24 March 2018 at 00:28, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> wrote:

> Package: ftp.debian.org
> X-Debbugs-Cc: lua...@packages.debian.org, groo...@groolot.net
>
> luakit was orphaned about 3 years ago [1]
>
> It was removed from Testing 8 months ago because it depends on the
> unmaintained webkitgtk.
>
> There is an ITA/RFS bug in progress, but it has been in progress for 9
> months and is still not ready for upload to Debian. (I apologize for
> not helping more, but I'm not interested in being partially
> responsible for this particular package.)
>
> I think at some point we should just let the package be removed from
> Debian so it doesn't block the webkitgtk removal. I also think that
> web browsers need to be reasonably well-maintained in Debian or else
> it is a disservice to our users. Therefore, I'm filing this removal
> bug..
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/738447
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Bicha
>

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