[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#885140: Bug#885140: wicd: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2022-01-19 05:43:15 +0100, Sebastian Rasmussen wrote:
> Sadly it appears no one has stepped up to do the porting in the four years
> since 2017. As a user of wicd-curses, can I humbly suggest that Debian
> disables wicd-gtk for the time being so that Debian/testing mapped to
> bookworm can continue using wicd?
> 
> I'm slightly worried by this comment though:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885140#77

There are also other issues.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916348

is rather annoying for networks with several access points.

> If wicd-curses is kicked out of Debian entirely, what is the suggested
> alternative for scanning, connecting to and disconnecting from Wi-Fi
> in a terminal?

Due to the various wicd issues, I've switched to nmcli, e.g.

  nmcli device wifi rescan
  nmcli device wifi list
  nmcli device wifi connect ...
  nmcli device disconnect ...

There are completions for bash and zsh.

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