Hi! I am the Fedora maintainer of python-pydbus[0] and would like to announce the intent of orphaning the package in the Fedora 44 timeframe.
As for some backstory, the Anaconda installer team packaged pydbus long ago as a better replacement for the python-dbus library. While it indeed worked much better than python-dbus, there were some missing features we needed for the installer, but our PR was never merged upstream[1] and the PR is in fact still open. In Vendula Poncova from the installer team ended up creating the dasbus project[2][3] which is heavily based on pydbus and has the features we were never able to upstream to pydbus - and much more. The dasbus library has been in use by the Anaconda installer and other projects for many years by this point & is maintained by the installer team both in Fedora, RHEL and in upstream. As a result, it no longer makes sense to me to maintain pydbus, as the installer no longer uses it & I have no use for it myself. Looking at repoquery: $ dnf repoquery --whatrequires python3-pydbus Updating and loading repositories: Repositories loaded. input-remapper-0:2.1.1-2.fc42.noarch recapp-0:1.1.1-11.fc42.noarch recoll-gssp-0:1.42.1-1.fc42.x86_64 recoll-gssp-0:1.43.2-1.fc42.x86_64 There are some packages that depend on pydbus in Fedora (maintainers CCed) - my advice will be to either migrate to dasbas (which is very similar & the port should be easy) or possibly pick up maintainership of the pydbus package - I will gladly transfer it to an interested Fedora packager. If no one shows interest in the package, I will follow the package orphaning process in the Fedora 44 timeframe. Best Wishes Martin Kolman [0] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-pydbus [1] https://github.com/LEW21/pydbus/pull/63 [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-dasbus [3] https://github.com/dasbus-project/dasbus -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
