[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#1071199: O: wicd -- wired and wireless network manager written in Python

[Axel Beckert]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: wicd at packages.debian.org, txgvnn at gmail.com, zeph at fsfe.org, andi at bastelmap.de, bage at 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.