On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:10:02PM +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 7 November 2012 12:55, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[email protected]> wrote: > > As part of the ongoing goal to remove python2 from the installation > > media [1] ndisgtk was identified to still be using python2, pygtk and > > python-glade2. > > > > Are there plans to port ndisgtk to python3, pygi and gtkbuilder ? > > Is ndisgtk still needed? Or can ubuntu-drivers-common take over this > > functionality. > > > > Would it be acceptable to drop the ndisgtk (GUI, not the command line > > ndiswrapper-utils) from the install images? > > The current instructions/documentation for ndiswrapper do list both > > ndisgtk and command line way of installing windows drivers. [2] > > > > I do want to question the need for ndiswrapper on the install media in > > recent years: (i) given that all major computer manufacturers ship > > ubuntu pre-installed and (ii) preferred way to get the windows driver > > is over the network [2] (iii) and the steps to manually retrieve > > windows drivers from a windows installation are harder to follow than > > ndiswrapper command-line instructions. > > > > It turns out that ndiswrapper linux kernel module was dropped, as far > back as during precise development or possibly before that. > At the time ndiswrapper module was dropped, ndiswrapper-dkms was not seeded. > > I have now opened a bug to drop bogus provides:ndiswrapper from the > linux kernel [3]. > > And I would like to raise a merge proposal to ubuntu seeds to do one of: > * to drop ndiswrapper-common, ndiswrapper-utils-1.9, ndisgtk from all seeds > * seed ndiswrapper-dkms > > I am in favor of dropping the whole lot from the images as they are > currently useless for the "offline" case since kernel module is not on > the installation media. > Alternatively, if this was a mistake, dkms module should be seeded. > > [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1076395 >
I prefer dropping, too. Nowadays, cards needing ndiswrapper are not that usual anymore, and development of ndiswrapper is not that active anymore. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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