From: Joerg Jung <mail@umaxx.net>
Subject: Re: removal of www/surf
To: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:32:29 +0100

Hi,

> On 13. Mar 2026, at 08:32, Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?


I would not consider it “unmaintained” as there were several patches and discussions 
on suckless hackers mailing list last year with the current maintainer (Quentin Rameau) 
responding to them.

Although, I’m OK (jung@) with removing it, if it's in the way for other things.

We can easily re-add once suckless folks have sorted things out and released a 
new version.

Thanks,
Regards,
Joerg Jung