Re: Seeking the maintainer of dbus-python

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 5:14 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 12. 02. 20 11:01, Vojtěch Trefný wrote:
> >>> This package has been deprecated for a very long time (a decade?).
> >>> Nothing should be using it anymore. Either use GDBus via PyGObject, or
> >>> another D-Bus client library instead. If anybody wants to take this
> >>> package, I'm sure that could be arranged. Working out a retirement plan
> >>> would also be a good idea, though if there are too many rdeps it might
> >>> not be practical.
> >>>
> >> I don't think this was the library that was deprecated either. I'm
> >> pretty sure that was the libdbus-glib library, though this is
> >> unfortunately built on top of that.
> >>
> >
> >  From https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-python/blob/master/NEWS:
> >
> > "The deprecated dbus-glib library is no longer required. A bundled copy
> >    of its main loop integration code is included instead."
> >
> > We are using dbus-python in some of our packages (mostly test suite for
> > UDisks and some helper scripts etc.). From the git repo it looks like
> > the project is actively maintained and latest release is less than month
> > old so I think there is no reason to retire dbus-python.
> > If nobody wants to maintain this package I can do that. It's definitely
> > easier than rewriting our code to something else.
>
> I agree that retiring this is premature. Thank you, Vojta, for volunteering.
>
> Ray, could you please give this package to to FAS user "vtrefny"?
>
> We can help with Python related problems if @python-sig group is added, although
> I am afraid that adding yet another group would simply increase the diffusion of
> responsibility.
>

I pretty much live and breathe by this library for dnfdaemon, so I'm
also willing to co-maintain it too.



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