Ubuntu Indicators to Ayatana Indicators Transition

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Ubuntu Indicators to Ayatana Indicators Transition

Packages that require a Patch and are not yet being worked on

If interested in porting one the package from the below list to Ayatana Indicators, simply move the package name to the W-I-P section and create a status block for it.

Package in Debian with already enabled Indicator Support

Packages in Ubuntu that have Indicator Support enabled, but not so in Debian

brasero
glipper
gtk-recordmydesktop
kazam
linuxdcpp
quicksynergy
radiotray
uget
virt-manager

Packages in Ubuntu main that need to be ported a.s.a.p.

$ reverse-depends -c main src:libappindicator
Reverse-Depends
===============
* network-manager-gnome         (for libappindicator3-1)       -> SEE BELOW
* remmina                       (for libappindicator3-1)       -> SEE BELOW
* transmission-gtk              (for libappindicator3-1)       -> SEE BELOW
* ubiquity-frontend-gtk         (for gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1) -> SEE BELOW 
* update-notifier               (for libappindicator3-1)       -> SEE BELOW

All Ubuntu packages above have been handled already.

W-I-P: Packages that currently get patched

Package: blueman

Who: sunweaver
Package (unstable): blueman

Package: redshift

Who: Kentaro Hayashi <hayashi@clear-code.com>
Package (unstable): redshift
Bug (Debian): #956779
Bug (Upstream): https://github.com/jonls/redshift/pull/757

POSTPONED: Packages with awkward status in Debian (unclear if we should patch them at all)

SUBMITTED: Packages with patches sent out to package maintainers

Package: deluge-gtk

Who: Unit193
Last change: 2018-05-11
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://loki.unit193.net/cgit/users/unit193/deluge.git/commit/?id=358afd4b33125818f84c3d62bc3a3fe5d53ec67d, https://loki.unit193.net/cgit/users/unit193/deluge.git/commit/?id=8a5169b1021d021492ee4e4502f596bc71507b0f
Upstream-Request:
Bug report: 898382
Comment: -
Fixed in version: -
Fixed upstream: -

Package: gmpc

Who: Kentaro Hayashi
Patch exists: yes
Bug report: 956768
gmpc
Comment: likely to be in next upload -smcv

Package: kupfer

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-08-13
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=906043;filename=kupfer_0%2Bv319-3_0%2Bv319-3.1.debdiff;msg=5
Upstream-Request:
Bug report: 906043
Comment: -
Fixed in version: -
Fixed upstream: -

Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-08-13
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=906026;filename=lightdm-gtk-greeter_2.0.5-1_2.0.5-1.1%2Bayatanaindicators.debdiff;msg=5
Bug report: 906026
Comment: Patch still lacks support for starting ayatana-indictor-*.service units
Fixed in version: -
Fixed upstream: -

Package: update-notifier (Ubuntu-only)

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-04-02
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1760691/+attachment/5099150/+files/update-notifier_3.189_3.189.1.debdiff
Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1760691
Comment-1: shift to Ayatana Indicators is a must in Ubuntu to exchange libappindicator with libayatana-appindicator in Ubuntu main
Comment-2: LP:1760691 got IMHO erroneously closed, see the bugs mail backlog (where I sent a comment on that, but no reply so far, i.e. 2018-06-01)
Fixed in version: -
Fixed upstream: -

Package: parcellite

Who: Ozzyboshi
Last change: 2018-10-29
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=2;bug=909651;filename=q80yx9fi;msg=5
Upstream-Request:
Bug report: 909651
Comment: -
Fixed in version: -
Fixed upstream: -

Package: clipit

Who: Ozzyboshi
Last change: 2018-10-29
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=2;bug=912212;filename=paste_1049517;msg=5
Upstream-Request:
Bug report: 912212
Comment: -
Fixed in version: -
Fixed upstream: -

Package: psensor

Who: Ozzyboshi
Last change: 2019-02-4
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921339
Upstream-Request:
Bug report: 921339
Comment:
Fixed in version: -
Fixed upstream: -

INDICATOR-SUPPORT-REMOVED: Packages that no longer use indicators and the their indicator dependencies and code have been removed during the course of this transition

Package: gtimelog

Who: Ozzyboshi
Last change: 2018-11-29
Patch exists: no
Patch-URL:
Upstream-Request:
Bug report: 914895
Comment: -1 This package does not use indicators anymore, the newly submitted bug report requests the uploader to just remove the build dependency
Fixed in version: -
Fixed upstream: -

TO-BE-REMOVED: Packages that should be rather removed from Debian than patched

None known, at the moment.

ALREADY-REMOVED: Packages that have been removed from Debian during the course of this transition

Package: libgtk2-appindicator-perl

Who: jbicha, sunweaver
Last change: 2018-03-31
Removal Request: 894377
Other bug reports: 889108
Comment: Package has been removed from Debian

DONE: Packages that have been switched to Ayatana Indicators

Package: appindicator3-sharp

Who: andrewsh
Last change: 2018-04-29
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://browse.dgit.debian.org/appindicator3-sharp.git/tree/debian/patches/04-link_against_ayatana.patch
Bug report: -
Comment: -
Fixed in version: 12.10.0+git20151221-4
Fixed upstream: no

Package: budgie-indicator-applet

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-04-17
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=893707;filename=budgie-indicator-applet_0.3-1_0.3-1.1%2Bayatana.debdiff;msg=5
Bug report: 893707
Comment: -
Fixed in version: 0.6-1
Fixed upstream: yes

Package: gajim-appindicatorintegration

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-05-20
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=899103;filename=gajim-appindicatorintegration_1.0.3-1_1.0.3-1.1%2Bayatanaappindicator.debdiff;msg=5
Bug report: 899103
Comment: -
Fixed in version: 1.1.0-1
Fixed upstream: yes

Package: gcin

Who: mwei
Last change: 2021-01-19
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gcin/-/blob/master/debian/patches/0013-Use-ayatana-indicator.patch
Bug report: 956766
Fixed in version: 2.9.0+dfsg1-2
Fixed upstream: no

Package: gpodder

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-06-01
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=898424;filename=gpodder_3.10.1-1_3.10.1-1.1%2Bayatanaappindicator.debdiff;msg=5
Upstream-Request:
Bug report: 898424
Comment: The patch also ports the gpodder "ubuntu_appindicator.py" extension from Python2 to Python3
Fixed in version: 3.10.1-2
Fixed upstream: UNKNOWN

Package: gnome-pie

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-09-07
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=907551;filename=gnome-pie_0.7.1-1__0.7.1-1.1.debdiff;msg=5
Upstream-Request:
Bug report: 907551
Comment: -
Fixed in version: 0.7.1-2
Fixed upstream: (unknown)

Package: gnome-shell-pomodoro

Who: aerostitch-guest (Joseph Herlant)
Last change: 2018-09-01
Patch exists: yes
Package (unstable): gnome-shell-pomodoro
Patch-URL: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gnome-shell-pomodoro/commit/16c55b58914237dfbe1e3cd7bdfc1916224c0643
Upstream-request: https://github.com/codito/gnome-pomodoro/pull/367
Bug report: https://github.com/codito/gnome-pomodoro/issues/353
Fixed in version: 0.13.4-3
Fixed upstream: Waiting on merge of the upstream PR

Package: guake-indicator

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-08-29
Bug report: 906046
Fixed in version: 1.4-1
Fixed upstream: yes

Package: hime

Who: mwei
Last change: 2021-01-19
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/hime/-/blob/master/debian/patches/0003-Use-ayatana-indicator.patch
Bug report: 956772
Fixed in version: 0.9.11+dfsg-2
Fixed upstream: no

Package: mate-indicator-applet

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2017-10-30
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=880187;filename=mate-indicator-applet_1.18.1-1.ayatanaindicators.debdiff;msg=5
Bug report: 880187
Comment: -
Fixed in version: 1.20.0-1 (upstream)
Fixed upstream: yes

Package: pasystray

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-10-31
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://github.com/christophgysin/pasystray/issues/98
Upstream-Request: https://github.com/christophgysin/pasystray/issues/98
Bug report: 898612
Comment: -
Fixed in version: 0.7.0-1
Fixed upstream: -

Package: ring

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-04-19
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=894651;filename=ring_20180228.1.503da2b~ds1-1_20180228.1.503da2b~ds1-1.1.debdiff;msg=5
Bug report: 894651
Comment: -
Fixed in version: 20180419.1.01da897~ds1-1
Fixed upstream: yes

Package: transmission

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-04-22
Patch exists: yes
Patch URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=894410;filename=transmission_2.92-3_2.92-3%2Bayatanaindicators.debdiff;msg=5
Bug report: 894410
Comment: shift to Ayatana Indicators is a must in Ubuntu to exchange libappindicator with libayatana-appindicator in Ubuntu main
Fixed in version: 2.93-1 (Debian patch)
Fixed upstream: pending

Package: ubiquity (Ubuntu-only)

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-04-17
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/363012998/ubiquity-18.04.4_18.04.4+ayatana.debdiff
Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1760701
Comment: dropping the ?AppIndicator dependency from debian/control is a must in Ubuntu to exchange libappindicator with libayatana-appindicator in Ubuntu main
Fixed in version: 18.04.5
Fixed upstream: yes

Package: variety

Who: Unit193 / tacocat
Last change: 2018-03-31
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://github.com/varietywalls/variety/commit/9d5d57e07af073d75b035e9b532ef5c5711eb318
Bug report: -
Comment: -
Fixed in version: 0.6.7-1
Fixed upstream: yes

Package: xfce4-indicator-plugin

Who: Unit193
Last change: 2017-10-30
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-xfce/goodies/trunk/xfce4-indicator-plugin/debian/patches/01_ayatana.patch?view=markup
Bug report: -
Follow ups: 893639
Comment: -
Fixed in version: 2.3.3-1
Fixed upstream: UNKNOWN

Package: remmina

Who: mfv
Last change: 2017-10-30
Patch exists: yes (upstream)
Patch-URL:
Bug report: -
Comment: -
Fixed in version: 1.2.0-rcgit.24-2
Fixed upstream: yes

Package: telegram-desktop

Who: sunweaver
Last change: 2018-05-11
Patch exists: yes
Patch-URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=898414;filename=telegram-desktop_1.2.17-1_1.2.17-1.1%2Bayatanaappindicator.debdiff;msg=5
Upstream-Request:
Bug report: 898414
Comment: -
Fixed in version: 1.3.7-1
Fixed upstream: -

AyatanaIndicatorsTransition