On Wednesday, November 23 2022, Athos Ribeiro wrote: > Hi, > > We sync'd nut 2.8.0-5 from Debian and the new package includes a few new > binaries that depend on universe packages. Namely: > > - nut-i2c > - nut-modbus > - nut-monitor > > The first two include additional drivers for I2C and Modbus based > protocols. They depend on libi2c0 and libmodbus5 (universe packages), > respectively. > > The last one is a GUI application that was available back in bionic but > was dropped on focal due to unsupported gtk packages. Back then, the > package was in universe. It now depends on python3-pyqt5. > > There is also a new > > - python3-nut > > package, which does not depend on any additional python packages. > > Now, I am proposing that we should demote > > - nut-i2c > - nut-modbus > - nut-monitor > > for now, and assess whether we want to promote the first two (the driver > sets) later. The GUI was already in universe in the past, when it was > around, and I suppose it should remain in universe for the time being > since supporting that would require qt packages support. > > Thoughts?
Athos and I discussed this after the standup today and I agree with this proposal. We already have our share of MIRs to do this cycle and I don't see these new nut modules as high priority. Thanks, -- Sergio GPG key ID: E92F D0B3 6B14 F1F4 D8E0 EB2F 106D A1C8 C3CB BF14 -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
