Mac OS brew librewolf deprecated? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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I reinstalled Librewolf via brew on my Mac and got this message: Warning: librewolf has been deprecated! It will be disabled on 2026-09-01.

Any idea what's happening there?

Would love to have another way to use Librewolf on Mac OS btw... it has to be reinstalled regularly with "brew reinstall librewolf --no-quarantine" because the installation "is broken". Very annoying, but I love Librewolf!

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The commit says something about something being “unsigned.” I suspect that means the LibreWolf artifact is unsigned, so they can’t verify its integrity.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/221666/files#diff-a2f494476a9a3132aa0da63b28d9fa05eb7180e78c32148864c7cdc214df33b9R22

The same thing just happened to Chromium:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/221570/files#diff-7073d00a063da1cbaa54537a0299fc88c89e55c6a7a0e0de2c34e82752d90e3aR13

Edit to add: Perhaps this was done in error, and perhaps it’s related to this issue: Autobump restrictions make opening PRs with bump-cask-pr overly complicated

this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025

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