From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E5E99138350 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69646E0B73; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DD988E0B67 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:16:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.43.0.6] (steils.org [46.36.39.187]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: steils) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E5ACD34E78F; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:16:48 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: net-misc/wicd To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1f8cef03-2270-0733-1be6-bc799f4df204@gentoo.org> From: Stefan Strogin Message-ID: <278eeefe-bac1-694d-ea57-af879f4cd50e@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 16:16:44 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1f8cef03-2270-0733-1be6-bc799f4df204@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 712b771f-4022-44d6-9aee-9458151286cb X-Archives-Hash: f2b25d68d18c7089a2247129c210d497 Hi, On 05/02/2020 09:11, Joonas Niilola wrote: > > # Stagnant upstream with latest release from 2016, python2-only, no > maintainer > # in Gentoo, no notable ebuild action in years, multiple bugs open. Blocks > # pygtk removal. > # Switch to alternatives such as, > # net-misc/connman, net-misc/dhcpcd, net-misc/netifrc, > net-misc/NetworkManager > # and so on. Removal in ~90 days. # > > 90-day removal window due it possibly being used in low-maintenance servers. > > Updated openrc ebuilds to not suggest installing wicd anymore but > connman instead, > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a1a177f32dc3c792f5fc69f144b1728a705e1fba > The upstream git is alive, it seems it is ported to Python 3, but not released yet: https://git.launchpad.net/wicd/log/ Its git version is uploaded to Debian experimental: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wicd/tree/python3 https://packages.debian.org/experimental/wicd So I am going to test if wicd-gtk from git works without pygtk and, if it does, resurrect the ebuild.