That dependency on dhcpcd-dbus  can and should be removed.

Roy

On 21 June 2023 08:10:09 BST, Leandro Cunha <leandrocunha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 4:03 AM Martin-Éric Racine
><martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 9:54 AM Leandro Cunha <leandrocunha...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 3:41 AM Martin-Éric Racine
>> > <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 9:21 AM Leandro Cunha 
>> > > <leandrocunha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 2:21 AM Martin-Éric Racine
>> > > > <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:11 AM Leandro Cunha 
>> > > > > <leandrocunha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > > > > All open bugs have been closed including the one linked below, 
>> > > > > > thanks
>> > > > > > for the feedback! I think it's very important when they come to me.
>> > > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031092
>> > > > >
>> > > > > The dependency on dhcpcd is sitll missing.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Also, as far as I can tell, upstream no longer ships a separate
>> > > > > dhcpcd-dbus. Unless I misread, this has been merged in dhcpcd-ui
>> > > > > (which can now produce a QT front-end in additon to the GTK one).
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Martin-Éric
>> > > >
>> > > > Dhcpcd-dbus provides dhcpcd just check the link below and I didn't see
>> > > > anything being merged about that in the commits made, are you sure
>> > > > about that?
>> > > > The only dependency that was missing was wpa_supplicant to be
>> > > > installed that the package depended on.
>> > > > Then I want to test compiling it to qt5 since the upstream mentioned
>> > > > that it works. Already qt4 is not used anymore.
>> > > > I remember using dhcpcd-ui to see how it worked when I worked on it to
>> > > > release 0.7.8. It works fine without needing to enter any
>> > > > dependencies.
>> > > > Just in conclusion, there are no missing dependencies since this bug
>> > > > closes (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031092).
>> > > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/dhcpcd-dbus
>> > > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/dhcpcd-gtk
>> > >
>> > > https://github.com/NetworkConfiguration
>> > >
>> > > Do you see any dhcpcd-dbus there?
>> >
>> > What I want to know is if this package still depends on dhcpcd-dbus,
>> > if something has been merged, otherwise I will test the compilation
>> > for qt5 and switch to dhcpcd. I add these two changes and ask someone
>> > to DD to upload them. This package depends on dhcpcd-dbus which the
>> > author has removed from their repositories since first upload for
>> > Debian.
>> > There is an issue that makes it possible to remove dhcpcd-dbus from
>> > the distribution because of upstream discontinuities.
>> > And I had already seen that he removed dhcpcd-dbus from his
>> > repositories. Didn't created any repository for it on github.
>>
>> Let's ask Roy himself. (in CC).
>>
>> Martin-Éric
>
>Thanks, I was about to email him about that. He was the one who did
>the first packaging and maintained it for a period.
>In Alpine, for example, kept dhcpcd-dbus:
>https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/dhcpcd-ui
>
>-- 
>Cheers,
>Leandro Cunha

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