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system-config-kickstart package

Port system-config-kickstart away from pygtk2

Bug #1735872 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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Bug Description

system-config-kickstart and ibus-sunpinyin are the only packages keeping pygtk2 in Ubuntu main.

pygtk has been unmaintained upstream since around 2011. The way forward is to port system-config-kickstart to use GObject Introspection bindings. This also requires porting to GTK3.

For more information on GObject Introspection see:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
description: updated
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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :

It might be worth considering demoting the package - added a bug for that, looking for feedback
before I make it an official request.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-kickstart/+bug/1738046

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

system-config-kickstart has been demoted to universe. I am keeping this bug open since it still needs to be ported way from pygtk which will be removed from the Ubuntu archives in a future Ubuntu release.

tags: added: gtk2-removal
removed: gtk2-demotion
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