Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: w...@packages.debian.org, txg...@gmail.com, z...@fsfe.org, a...@bastelmap.de, b...@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.