Hello Everyone, with NetworkManager-1.0 release exactly three years ago, libnm-glib library got deprecated in favor of a newer library, libnm. Throughout those years libnm-glib received very little love, fell behind the feature parity with libnm and was left with bugs unfixed. While the old library was still kept around, it has became a maintenance burden. A lot of effort was spent porting things to the newer library and happily we're almost there now. With very few users left the time to drop the old library has come closer. For Fedora 28, we'd like to make sure there are no users of libnm-glib left. We've worked with the upstreams to get rid of the libnm-glib dependencies, but there's still a couple of packages in Fedora that rely on libnm-glib. Their maintainters may need to take an action to avoid breakage. Perhaps they are in a better position to talk to the respective upstreams or may patch the distribution packages. Here's the affected packages: * gnome-shell Upstream unresponsive. [1] * switchboard-plug-networking & wingpanel-indicator-network Upstream went unresponsive, pull requests stalled. [2] [3] * strongswan-charon-nm Patch in review, will likely be part of next release. [4] Please note that this is not an ultimatum of any kind -- we're not removing the library yet, and we'll make sure we'll communicate the actual removal properly. At this point we just need the maintainers to be aware of the issue and cooperate. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789811 [2] https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-networking/pull/88 [3] https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel-indicator-network/pull/57 [4] https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/pull/85 ❤, Lubo _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
