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Bug#1071199: marked as done (O: wicd -- wired and wireless network manager written in Python)

Your message dated Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:37:34 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#1071199: O: wicd -- wired and wireless network manager written in Python
has caused the Debian Bug report #1071199,
regarding O: wicd -- wired and wireless network manager written in Python
to be marked as done.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: wicd@packages.debian.org, txgvnn@gmail.com, zeph@fsfe.org, andi@bastelmap.de, bage@debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:wicd

Let's face it, neither me nor Giap Tran haven't done anything on wicd
since 2019 — beside moving it from unstable to experimental due to the
rather incomplete upstream state of the Python 3 port. I even forgot
to push a commit for years. (I just pushed things now and merged
Bastian's changes from Salsa. → https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wicd)

Looking at https://git.launchpad.net/wicd/log/ it seems that since
then yet another dev (Andreas Messer) tried himself on wicd upstream
and stopped again. (The last dev I had contact with was Guido Serra.)

(I've X-Debbugs-Cc'ed all mentioned persons.)

I actually haven't looked yet if the code as of October 2022 (just
documentation changes afterwards) actually works as the last device
where I used wicd on for wifi connections (an Asus EeePC 900) got very
unreliable due to fan failure. And I haven't fixed that yet.

The package is currently only available in Debian Experimental (see
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wicd) and its description is:

 Wicd is a general-purpose network configuration server which aims
 to provide a simple but flexible interface for connecting to networks.

 Its features include:

  * wide variety of settings;
  * ability to connect to (and maintain profiles for) both wired and
    wireless networks;
  * support for many encryption schemes, including WEP, WPA, WPA2 and
    custom schemes;
  * wireless-tools compatibility;
  * tray icon showing network activity and signal strength;
  * lack of GNOME dependencies (although it does require GTK+), making it
    easy to use in Xfce, Fluxbox, Openbox, Enlightenment, etc.

In case there's nobody stepping up for adoption within a month or two
or so, I'll probably request removal from Debian. It's in bad shape
for long enough and I have enough other packages which need my time.

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Hi Jeremy,

Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> Package: ftp.debian.org
> User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: remove
> X-Debbugs-Cc: wicd@packages.debian.org
> Control: affects -1 src:wicd
> 
> Please remove wicd from Debian experimental. It was removed from
> unstable years ago and is not present in stable or oldstable. It has
> not been updated in experimental since its removal from unstable.

Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> Oh, I was not expecting a recent bug like this to exist. I only
> noticed it after I requested (and got) removal of wicd from
> experimental earlier today.

*sigh*

> I guess this counts as the "month or two" you suggested.

Yes. it does and the removal is fine. I though would have expected
that you at least have a short look at
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wicd before requesting remove as it
clearly listed #1071199 under "action needed" (and currently still
does, but I will close it with this mail).

		Regards, Axel
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