Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: surf...@packages.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:surfraw
I request an adopter for the surfraw package. It seems the debian community took over the maintenance of this project then orphaned it. * I'm on the mailing list of the debian maintainers team * I proposed to help without answer * I have some patches maintained separately I would be to adopt both surfraw and surfraw-extra maintainance as well as surfraw.org. any help would welcome. regards, Marc The package description is: Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the World Wide Web . Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell. . Surfraw abstracts the browser away from input. Doing so lets it get on with what it's good at. Browsing. Interpretation of linguistic forms is handed back to the shell, which is what it, and human beings are good at. Combined with incremental text browsers, such as links, w3m (or even lynx), and screen(1), or netscape-remote a Surfraw liberateur is capable of research speeds that leave GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear and wonder.
