[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#844159: Bug#844159: virt-manager: suggests/uses python-gnomekeyring which is deprecated

[Guido Günther]

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Hi,

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 09:54:54PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Source: virt-manager
> Version: 1:1.4.0-3
> Severity: normal
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs python-gnomekeyring gnome-python-desktop
> 
> Hi,
> 
> virt-manager suggests python-gnomekeyring, which is long deprecated and
> going to be removed from the archive. It should switch to using the
> GObject Introspection bindings for gnome-keyring,
> gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0.
> 
> This would mean switching to GObject Introspection for other bindings as
> well, e.g. GLib and GTK+, so making the switch to GTK+ 3 at the same
> time would make a lot of sense.
> 
> For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].
> 
> Please try to do this before the Stretch release as we're going to try
> to remove it this cycle.

Thanks for bringing this up. virt-manager uses introspection since quiete
some time and it also migrated from python-gnomekeyring to libsecrets a
while ago. I've fixed the dependency.

It might be better to suggest libsecrets introspection instead of
gnomekeyring introspection in case there are other projects that still
need to do the migration.

Cheers,
 -- Guido