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From:
Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org>
Subject:
removal of www/surf
To:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:32:08 +0100

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Hi.

www/surf is the only port left that depends on the unFLAVORed version of
www/webkitgtk4 (which itself depends on unmaintained libsoup2, devel/libsoup).

www/webkitgtk4 is going away, as it uses libsoup2:
https://webkitgtk.org/2025/10/07/webkitgtk-soup2-deprecation.html

Surf seems to be unmaintained and having a browser that uses such unmaintained
does not fly.
Last release was 4 years ago: https://surf.suckless.org/

OK to remove it?

-- 
Antoine