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and subject line Re: closing RFP: wwwoffle -- World Wide Web OFFline Explorer
has caused the Debian Bug report #649860,
regarding RFP: wwwoffle -- World Wide Web OFFline Explorer
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : wwwoffle
Version : 2.9h
Upstream Author : Andrew M. Bishop <amb "at" gedanken.demon.co.uk>
* URL : http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
* License : GPL2
Programming Lang: C
Description : World Wide Web OFFline Explorer
The wwwoffled program is a simple proxy server with special features
for use with dial-up internet links. This means that it is possible
to browse web pages and read them without having to remain connected.
The package has previously been shipped with Debian but was removed[1]
due to unresolved RC bugs. I therefore include the original maintainer
(Paul Slootman) in X-Debbugs-CC. As far as I know there has been no
response from Paul on wwwoffle.
Is there anyone else interested in bringing wwwoffle back to Debian? Is
there any repository for the previous Debian packaging efforts? I could
offer some help with the package.
Helmut
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wwwoffle/news/20111120T102305Z.html
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 05:11:34AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Bart Martens schrieb am Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 04:20:17PM +0000:
> > RFP 649860 has no visible progress for a long time, so closing.
>
> That doesn't mean that there's no more interest in getting wwwoffle
> back into Debian. It's an RFP and not an ITP after all.
I fear that Bart is right here. We've moved to a world where
http-accessible sites are rare. Most redirect to https. This is
something wwwoffle cannot easily deal with. Furthermore, a lot of sites
have become so interactive that they are useless without javascript. The
utilty of wwwoffle is fairly low these days. The removal was warranted.
Helmut
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