Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: net-misc/wicd

[Stefan Strogin <steils@gentoo.org>]

Upd.
The port to Python 3 is not finished in the upstream.
Particularly it is still using pygtk, it seems no work in porting to
gtk+3 has been done yet.

I don't think I'm going to do it. If anybody will, many people will be grateful.
I personally suggest to look at net-wireless/iwd (it has its own client iwctl,
no other network managers like connman are necessary).

On 05/02/2020 16:16, Stefan Strogin wrote:
> 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.
>