Hi Helmut,
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> 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.
Bart hasn't thought a single second about this. It was one of his
ignorant, purely time-based closing of WNPP-bug-reports which annoy
for quite some years now. And in addition to that he was MIA for quite
a while and didn't react at all to complaints.
> We've moved to a world where http-accessible sites are rare. Most
> redirect to https.
Well, rare is a bit exaggerating. But they're getting less, yes. And
while offering HTTPS is surely a good thing, those redirects are
controversial. IMHO the decision of HTTP or HTTPS should be solely
taken by the user (unless credentials are transmitted).
> Furthermore, a lot of sites have become so interactive that they are
> useless without javascript.
JavaScript is definitely not an issue for wwwoffle. IIRC it caches any
request, be it HTML, pictures, JavaScript or JSON. I'm just not sure
about POST requests.
> The utilty of wwwoffle is fairly low these days.
Fairly low is not zero.
> The removal was warranted.
The removal of the package or the removal of the RFP bug report?
Anyway, I'll ask a friend who's AFAIK still using wwwoffle on a daily
base and ask him if its working with HTTPS. If there's any sign that
it can cope with HTTPS, I'll reopen that RFP.
Regards, Axel
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