Bug 646118 – Drop package net-misc/urlview upstream is dead

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chema Alonso Josa (RETIRED) 2018-01-30 11:32:57 UTC]

Drop the package in 30 days

[Comment 1 fkater 2018-05-28 11:16:47 UTC]

For me and probably other mutt users this is a crucial tool to deal with
links in mail.

Do not remove without giving a reason and/or alternatives, please.

[Comment 2 Tim Harder 2018-05-28 17:33:45 UTC]

In reply to fkater from comment #1:
> For me and probably other mutt users this is a crucial tool to deal with
> links in mail.
> 
> Do not remove without giving a reason and/or alternatives, please.

I added app-text/extract_url a while ago as a replacement.

[Comment 3 Chema Alonso Josa (RETIRED) 2018-05-28 18:33:50 UTC]

The main reason to drop urlview is because it's no longer avaliable at:

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/mail/mutt/contrib/

IIRC, last time I checked this software it was more than 10 years old.

app-text/extract_url is an excellent alternative I've been using it for a while and work fine.

If you are interested in keeping urlview you can do it in your own overlay.

[Comment 4 Chema Alonso Josa (RETIRED) 2018-06-30 14:27:38 UTC]

Package dropped from the tree:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=bdf58bb9207c1b4cb8a71d7b0eb3020015c59a65