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Upd. |
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The port to Python 3 is not finished in the upstream. |
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Particularly it is still using pygtk, it seems no work in porting to |
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gtk+3 has been done yet. |
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I don't think I'm going to do it. If anybody will, many people will be grateful. |
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I personally suggest to look at net-wireless/iwd (it has its own client iwctl, |
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no other network managers like connman are necessary). |
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On 05/02/2020 16:16, Stefan Strogin wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> On 05/02/2020 09:11, Joonas Niilola wrote: |
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>> |
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>> # Stagnant upstream with latest release from 2016, python2-only, no |
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>> maintainer |
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>> # in Gentoo, no notable ebuild action in years, multiple bugs open. Blocks |
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>> # pygtk removal. |
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>> # Switch to alternatives such as, |
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>> # net-misc/connman, net-misc/dhcpcd, net-misc/netifrc, |
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>> net-misc/NetworkManager |
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>> # and so on. Removal in ~90 days. # |
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>> |
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>> 90-day removal window due it possibly being used in low-maintenance servers. |
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>> |
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>> Updated openrc ebuilds to not suggest installing wicd anymore but |
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>> connman instead, |
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>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a1a177f32dc3c792f5fc69f144b1728a705e1fba |
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> |
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> The upstream git is alive, it seems it is ported to Python 3, |
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> but not released yet: https://git.launchpad.net/wicd/log/ |
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> Its git version is uploaded to Debian experimental: |
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> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wicd/tree/python3 |
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> https://packages.debian.org/experimental/wicd |
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> |
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> So I am going to test if wicd-gtk from git works without pygtk and, if it does, |
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> resurrect the ebuild. |
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