On 20 August 2024 16:17:35 GMT+02:00, Fabio Loli <fabio.l...@disroot.org> wrote:
>> MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for quiterss-git [2]:
>>
>> It seems this has become obsolete because it depends on the
>> increasingly more frequently breaking component qt5-webkit, EOL since
>> 2017.
>>
>> As of now, all providers of that lib, the qt5-webkit, qt5-webkit-git,
>> qt5-webkit-movableink-git AUR packages fail to build, due to different
>> reasons each (and this has been the case for at least 2-3 months).
>>
>> Upstream has not been maintained since 3 years ago. [a]
>>
>> Meanwhile the continuation fork, AUR/quiterss2-git [b] has been ported
>> to the currently supported qt5-webengine, and therefore it can still
>> be built and used.
>>
>> [a]: https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss.git
>> [b]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/quiterss2-git
>>
>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/quiterss-git/
>
>At least qt5-webkit builded fine as of 7 Aug 2024, it isn't failing
>to build for months
>
In any case, there is still a maintained stable AUR/quiterss, there is no need
to keep a -git variant for the same, as upstream is not touched for 3 years.
It's enough for users to have the option to install either AUR/quiterss or
AUR/quiterss2-git, in my view.
Also, the less qt5-webkit dependent packages there are, the better, I think. I
mean, especially when there are already modernized forks that use more reliable
web rendering engines like Qt{5,6}-webengine.
