On 2021-01-19 10:16 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:54:25, Gareth Evans wrote:
>> There is apparently a Python 3 fork of wicd (or two) but I can't
>> figure out what state they're in - are either of these likely to
>> become available in Buster repos? Backports?
>
> Wicd is currently only available in experimental (according to
> https://tracker.debian.org/wicd)[1], while backports can only be done
> from packages in testing (currently bullseye).
>
> Considering bullseye is now already in the first stage of the freeze
> before release there is little chance for Wicd to be included in
> bullseye at all.
>
> After bullseye is released it might become available in
> bullseye-backports, maybe also buster-backports-sloppy.
The version in experimental is a git snapshot from September 2019,
apparently development has stalled. People upgrading to bullseye should
probably look for alternatives, I think network-manager is the only
reasonable one unless you are willing to resort to commandline tools.
Cheers,
Sven
