Rodrigo, It looks like dillo is maintained by Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>.
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dillo He would be the first person you should probably ask about updating the package. On Friday, April 4, 2025 2:33:22 PM Mountain Standard Time Rodrigo Arias wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying again to reach debian-devel, this time by subscribing > first to the list. I have also contacted your #debian-lists IRC > channel for more information on what happened, but I didn't got any > reply. > > I'll write a slightly shorter email here, the full email is > forwarded below (some typos corrected about dates). > > The version of the Dillo web browser that you currently distribute > with Debian (3.0.5) is 10 years old. Since that version, a lot of > changes were done by the original developers, but they never got > into a release before the project was abandoned around 2017 (last > email from Jorge was from 2019). Among those changes was the > support for floats or the switch to mbedTLS instead of OpenSSL. > > The 3.0.5 version has several issues on the network side, as it is > unable to properly handle TLS alerts. On the rendering side, there > are problems with floats, image ratios and with the lack of CSS > units among others. > > In 2024 I decided to resurrect the project and fix those and many > other problems. You can try by yourself and see the difference on > the sites side by side. Here is the new website and changelog: > > https://dillo-browser.github.io/ > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dillo-browser/dillo/refs/heads/ma > ster/ChangeLog > > Our latest release 3.2.0 fixes A LOT of problems in the rendering > side and introduces new features like SVG support for Wikipedia > math equations. It also includes the unreleased changes from the > original developers. I presented some features and the overall > state at FOSDEM this year: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFJp8JDg8Yg > > Dillo is designed to run on very old computers and/or low power > devices like Raspberry Pi. Given that newcomers to Linux often > begin with Debian based distros, it is unlikely that they know how > to build an updated Dillo browser from source, so I'm interested in > distributing already built binaries. > > Do you have any interest in updating Dillo in the Debian repository, > or should I invest my time in finding other ways to distribute a > binary package to users? > > Thanks, > Rodrigo. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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