Bug#757790: hplip-gui: Please consider porting to python-notify2
Version: 3.15.11+repack0-1
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:54:55PM +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> Package: hplip-gui
> Version: 3.14.6-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> hplip-gui currently recommends python-notify, which in turn depends on
> python-gtk. Both python-gtk and python-notify are obsolete and we are
> going to remove them at some point. Also, none of these packages supports
> Python 3, so if you will ever switch to Python 3, you need to get rid
> of python-notify usage first.
>
> The recommended alternative is python-notify2, which is a lightweight
> pure-Python interface to notification protocol. It was designed to be
> as compatible with python-notify as possible, so porting is very easy.
>
> See http://sources.debian.net/src/python-notify2/0.3-2/notify2.py/#L18
> for details.
>
> Another alternative will be using libnotify via gobject-introspection.
>
> Both these alternatives are modern, supported, and Python 3 compatible.
This was fixed in 3.15.11+repack0-1
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