Bug 891487 – net-p2p/transmission-3* apply debian patch to use ayatana indicators

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Pacho Ramos 2023-01-20 14:38:14 UTC]

dev-libs/libayatana-appindicator and dev-libs/libayatana-indicator are the only appindicators implementation that are still maintained and developped, while libappindicator are unmaintained for ages.

OpenSUSE already migrated and Debian is ongoing. This patch can be applied to transmission-3 for the migration:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/transmission/-/blob/master/debian/patches/ayatana-indicators.patch

For transmission-4 it's only a matter of updating the dep to dev-libs/libayatana-indicator and it will pick the new one (since beta2 version)
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/4001

Thanks

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2023-01-20 16:16:01 UTC]

Sounds good, thanks for the background info.

I'll update it shortly.

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2023-01-20 19:31:48 UTC]

The Debian patch wont work for us; it patches configure.ac, but not the cmake build files.

[Comment 3 Mike Gilbert 2023-01-20 19:41:58 UTC]

An oddity: dev-libs/libayatana-appindicator-0.5.91 installs libayatana-appindicator3, but has SLOT=0. Is that correct? Seems like a mistake to me.

[Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow 2023-01-20 19:45:09 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2e9e62c5ae19c8565310c4d652647efe6084e332

commit 2e9e62c5ae19c8565310c4d652647efe6084e332
Author:     Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2023-01-20 19:43:15 +0000
Commit:     Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2023-01-20 19:43:52 +0000

    net-p2p/transmission: update appindicator dep
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/891487
    Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>

 net-p2p/transmission/transmission-4.0.0_beta3.ebuild | 4 ++--
 net-p2p/transmission/transmission-9999.ebuild        | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2023-01-22 12:16:35 UTC]

Thanks for the fast action... I replied to one question you made in https://bugs.gentoo.org/887171#c2 (I see you are not in the CC list there... then.. to ensure you get the reply)

(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #3)
> An oddity: dev-libs/libayatana-appindicator-0.5.91 installs
> libayatana-appindicator3, but has SLOT=0. Is that correct? Seems like a
> mistake to me.

Well... no gtk2 support will be added... and for gtk4 the situation is pretty obscure currently (https://github.com/AyatanaIndicators/libayatana-appindicator/issues/22) and I cannot predict what will happen to it (or if it will be implemented by another project or...) :/  Then I simply planned to act when the support finally is added... somewhere (if ever, I hope)

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2023-01-22 12:25:18 UTC]

And, also (and specially), because it is hard to predict now if, in the future, there will be a dev-libs/libayatana-appindicator4 additional package or a dev-libs/libayatana-appindicator with two slots and those -r300 vs -r400 revisions that we need to use on those cases