I have just performed an upgrade to my local OpenWRT SVN development trunk with r22839 and LuCI (r6243). Upon entering the LuCI sub-menu after a make menuconfig, I got the following menu sans LuCI:
OpenWrt Kamikaze (r22871) Configuration
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? Arrow keys navigate the menu. <Enter> selects submenus --->. Highlighted ?
? letters are hotkeys. Pressing <Y> includes, <N> excludes, <M> builds as ?
? package. Press <Esc><Esc> to exit, <?> for Help, </> for Search. Legend: ?
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? <Select> < Exit > < Help > ?
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Looks like OpenWRT has abandoned LuCI.