Fionn,
It is a pleasure to make the acquaintance with a fellow developer working on packaging a browser based on Qt WebEngine. I am the developer and packager of Privacy Browser:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/privacybrowser
On Monday, April 24, 2023 12:58:50 PM MST Fionn Stephens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what interest there is in Debian for packaging the Nyxt
> browser? I'm definitely not an expert in Lisp, but I can help packaging it.
> I've already made a Debian Sid virtual machine. Am I correct in saying that
> the first step would be to package version "3-pre-release-6" for the
> unstable version of Debian?
As testing is currently in freeze, the best course of action would probably be to do a first upload to experimental, followed by an upload to unstable once Bookworm is released.
> I'm also interested in writing some documentation on the Nyxt browser. Would
> appreciate any hints on how to get contributing. I imaging getting in
> contact with the Common Lisp Debian team is a good start?
I would imagine they would be a good reference.
You might also find the following information about Qt WebEngine dictionary support in Debian interesting:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1020387
Soren
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